# U-DE-ZA (Ḥudaṯu)

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

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

- Reading: Ḥudaṯu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḥad(i)ṯ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2518/index.md>) 'new'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · DE (de) · ZA (za)

## Compared forms

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

## Attestations

- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): U-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.

## In the onomasticon

- [U-DE-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/U-DE-ZA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Huehnergard
- Huehnergard, John (2008), Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 32, Eisenbrauns
- 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
- 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

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