U-DE-ZA

personal name: ḥdṯ 'new'; Ḥudaṯu of ʾArāyu on HT 122b

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Reading: Ḥudaṯu
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *ḥad(i)ṯ- ‘new’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticḥdṯ (III) PN, syll. ḫu-da-ši, ḫu-dá-ši; ḥdṯn PN, syll. ḫu-ud!-ša-nu (DULAT 351; Huehnergard 2008, 230)

Attestations1 cited

HT 122a 3DU-DE-ZA 2[personal name, 2 (cf. A-RA-JU-U-DE-ZA, HT122b)

Commentary

HT 122a .1 U-DE-ZA 2, the first entry after ]RA-RI ·, in a list of names totalled KU-RO 31 (GORILA I 207); HT 122b .3 ]A-RA-JU-U-DE-ZẠ 2, Ḥudaṯu of ʾArāyu, the same count in the same account (GORILA I 208–209). u-de-za for ḥudaṯ(u): U writes ḥu with the guttural dropped, ZA ṯa. The Ugarit PN ḥdṯ, syllabic ḫu-da-ši, and ḥdṯn, ḫu-ud!-ša-nu (DULAT 351; Huehnergard 2008, 230). DE writes de for da.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 122a–bHaghia Triadau-de-za