Personal name · Semitic

A-JA-KU

personal name ('Where are you?')

Reading: ʾAyaku
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Knossos
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: A-JA-KU

Commentary

KN Zf 13, the last four signs of the undivided 19-sign spiral, ending at the centre of the bezel; the start of the word is not marked and KU is underdotted (GORILA IV 152–153). Amorite ʾAjak-u (Gelb 1980, no. 320). Rival: Akk. ajakku, a temple structure (CAD A/1, 224–25).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-JA-KU.

AmoriteʾAjak-u, written A-JA-KU (Gelb 1980, no. 320); ʾAjak-um, A-IA-KU-UM (no. 300); the ʾAja- ‘where?’ names, nos. 285–319
Hebrewאַיֶּכָּהʾayyekkâʾayyekkâ (אַיֶּכָּה) ‘where are you?’ (Gen 3:9; HALOT 39)