# A-DU-ZA (ʾAddu-ʿazz)

> ʾAddu-ʿazz (personal name), 'Addu is strong'; rival Hadas 'Myrtle'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾAddu-ʿazz
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Palaikastro
- Lexicon: [A-DU-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-ZA/index.md>)

## Commentary

ʾAddu-ʿazz 'Addu is strong': Addu + ʿazz (PS *ʕazVz-), the god first as in A-DU-NI-TA-NA; Ugaritic mt ʕz 'Mot was strong' (DULAT 194). Rival: hadas 'myrtle'.

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>)

## References

- 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

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