Personal name · Semitic

DE-JU-KU

personal name, 'burning, kindled'

Reading
Dalqu
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
DE-JU-KU

Commentary

A recipient in the HT 93a grain list, DE-JU-KU 1½. Dalqu ‘burning, kindled’, as Amorite DALQ-UM. Rival: √d-l-g ‘leap’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DE-JU-KU.

  • AmoriteDALQ-UM, DALAQ-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1396, 1462), under DLQ ‘burn’: dalqum, dalaqum (Gelb AS 21, 17)
  • Hebrewdlqdlq ‘burn, pursue’ (HALOT 223)
Linear A Lexicon