Personal name · Semitic

DA-TU

She of (…), a woman named by her house (personal name; feminine of ḏū 'he of'); rival daṯʾu 'spring pasture'

Reading: ḏātu
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: DA-TU

Commentary

HT 123+124a .6 DA-TU OLIV 15, the fourth olive-and-oil holder (GORILA I 211). ḏātu: the feminine of ḏū ‘he of’, Ugaritic dt (DULAT 252), Arabic ḏātu (Lane 984), Sabaic PNf ḏt + clan name (Sabaweb lemma 1281). Rival: daṯʾu ‘spring pasture’ (CAD D 163–164). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DA-TU.

SabaicPNf ḏt + clan name, the woman married into the clan (Sabaweb lemma 1281, after Stein 2012, 77)
Ugariticdt, f. of the functor d ‘the one(s) of’: pldm dt šʕrt ‘cloaks of wool’, KTU 4.270:8 (DULAT 252)
Arabicḏātu, fem. of ḏū ‘a possessor, an owner, a lord’ (Lane 984)