Personal name · Hurrian
A-SU-JA
Azzuya (woman's name; Hurrian hypocoristic on az(z)-)
- Reading
- Azzuya
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Hurrian Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-SU-JA
Commentary
HT 11a .3–4 A-SU-JA 1, the first entry after KU-RO 10 (GORILA I 23). Spelled as Nuzi A-zu-ia. See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-SU-JA.
- NuziAZ(Z)UIA, A-zu-ia, var. Az-zu-ia, a woman (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 41); az(z), Hurrian, in women’s names (ibid., 208)
- HurrianAzzuāya, az-zu-a-ia, f. (Mari, VHN 81); base Azzu ‘woman’, f. (Mari, Karana; Monti 2017, 234, 386)