# TU-QE-NU (Tuqnu)

> personal name: tuqnu 'good order, safety'; the flute-player of ZU-JU-PU₂

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

- Reading: Tuqnu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tḳn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3320/index.md>) 'to be in order; to set right, establish'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · QE (qe) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: tqn PN, syll. táq-qa-na (DULAT 862)
- Old Syrian: ta-qa-an (Alalakh, AT 149); il-taq-nu (Ugarit) (GlOS 2, 294)
- Akkadian: *tuqnu* — tuqnu 'safety, security'; PN Tuqunu-ēreš (CAD T 480)

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): TU-QE-NU — personal name, 'good order'

## Commentary

HT 25a .3, after A-RI-NI-TA 1, at the end of the line with no numeral; .4 ZU-JU-PU₂ 1 ṯulpu 'flute-player' gives his trade, the layout of .4–5 DU-RU-WI / I-KI-RA 1 (GORILA I 44–45). NU is complete at the preserved right edge, though GORILA I 45 brackets it. tu-qe-nu for tuqnu, √t-q-n 'to be in good order': the Ugarit PN tqn, táq-qa-na (DULAT 862); ta-qa-an at Alalakh and il-taq-nu at Ugarit (GlOS 2, 294); Akk. tuqnu 'safety, security', in the PN Tuqunu-ēreš (CAD T 480). QE writes qe for qu. Rival: Ugaritic tkn 'inspector, measurer' (GlOS 2, 294), which needs QE = ke. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [TU-QE-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TU-QE-NU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; GlOS; CAD T
- 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
- CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); 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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