# U-QE-TI (wōqedt)

> the burning one (f.); name or epithet

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

- Reading: wōqedt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*y/wḳd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2483/index.md>) 'burn'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · QE (qe) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *yqd* — yqd 'to burn' (HALOT 430); yōqedet 'burning' (f. ptc., Isa 65:5); môqēd 'hearth, burning' (HALOT 560)
- Aramaic: *yāqidtāʾ* — yāqidtāʾ 'burning' (f. ptc., Dan 3:6)
- Arabic: *waqada* — waqada 'to burn' (HALOT 430)

## Attestations

- [PL Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PLZf1/index.md>): \]TA WI-TE-JA-MU U-QE-TI JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME?\] TA-NU-NI-KI-NA NI-NU-NI \[?\]-I-\[?\] — the burning one (f.)

## Commentary

PL Zf 1, a silver pin from beside Platanos Tholos A: ]TA · WI-TE-JA-MU · U-QE-TI · JA-SA-SA-RA-ME (GORILA IV 161). Feminine participle of √w-q-d 'to burn': U writes w-, as in U-NA-KA-NA-SI wannā; QE the qe of Heb. yōqedet; the d before t unwritten; TI the feminine -t. Initial w- where Hebrew and Aramaic have y-. Rival: U- + QE-TI, the element of HT 7a, HT 58 and PO Zc 1. Weak point: one attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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

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