# TI-DI-TE-QA-TI (tidī teqaʿti)

> 'fix it, you have fastened it' (of the pin); rival Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt, personal name 'Teqaʿt knows', after one of the Kotharat

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: tidī teqaʿti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*watid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3082/index.md>) 'peg' + [\*ṭVqVʿ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0842/index.md>) 'sound'
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti) · DI (di) · TE (te) · QA (qa) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: watada, imperfect yatidu, imperative tid, verbal noun tida, 'fixed a wooden pin or peg' (Lane 2916–17); watid 'peg' (Lane 2917)
- Hebrew: *yātēd* — yātēd 'peg', for the loom, Judg 16:14, and driven, Judg 4:21; Isa 22:23 (HALOT 451); tāqaʿ 'to drive in, fasten', of Samson's braids fastened with the pin, Judg 16:13–14; 'blow (a horn), clap', Ps 47:2 (HALOT 1785); kôšārôt, Ps 68:7 bakkôšārôt 'with songs of joy' (HALOT 467)
- Ugaritic: *Tāqiʿatu* — tqʿt /Tāqiʿatu/, participle of tqʿ, 'she who applauds', one of the kṯrt (DULAT 862; GlOS 2, 295), named in their roll, KTU 1.24:49; kṯrt, female singers (HALOT 467) who also preside over childbirth (DULAT 468), sung in KTU 1.24:40–41 ašr ilht kṯrt bnt hll snnt 'I sing of the goddesses, the Kotharat, daughters of Hilal, the Swallows'; the Kotharat in a name: bnkṯrt 'son of the Kotharat', PN (DULAT 226; Gröndahl PTU 152)
- Eblaite: *ti-da tidaʿ* — ti-da tidaʿ 'she knows', a name (Pagan 1998, row 4469)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — 'fix it, you have fastened it': tidī, imperative of √w-t-d 'to fix a peg', + teqaʿti 'you (f.) have fastened', √t-q-ʿ, the verb of the pin in Samson's braids (Judg 16:13–14)

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, second row: A-DA-RA · TI-DI-TE-QA-TI · TA-SA-ZA, intact and undotted (GORILA IV 154–155). The pin speaks of itself. TI-DI tidī 'fix it!', 2fs imperative of √w-t-d 'to fix a peg', w dropped as in Arabic tid, tida (Lane 2916–17) and Heb. šēb from yāšab. TE-QA-TI teqaʿti 'you (f.) have fastened', -ti 2fs, of √t-q-ʿ, the verb of the pin driven into Samson's braids (Judg 16:13–14; HALOT 1785); e by Akkadian-type coloring from ʿ. Heb. yātēd 'peg' pairs with tāqaʿ (Judg 4:21; Isa 22:23; HALOT 451). Rival: Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt 'Teqaʿt knows', a sentence name: tidiʿ 3fs of √y-d-ʿ, the Ebla name ti-da tidaʿ (Pagan 1998, row 4469), i by coloring as in tīde 'you know' (Huehnergard 1997, §26.1); Teqaʿt, tqʿt 'she who applauds' (DULAT 862), one of the Kotharat, songstresses akin to the Muses (KTU 1.24:40–50). ʿ unwritten in both readings. One attestation. See A-DA-RA, TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE and A-MI-DA-U.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane; HALOT 451, 467, 1785; Pagan 1998; DULAT; KTU 1.24; GlOS 2; Huehnergard 1997
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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