Personal name · Hurrian
DI-KI-SE
Dikise, personal name, Hurrian tagiše 'beauty'
- Reading
- Dikise
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Hurrian Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- DI-KI-SE
Commentary
Attested twice in the same *21F-TU-NE personnel rubric. Laroche records tagiše/tegiše with spellings t/da-a-ki-ši and ta-(a)-ki-(e)-še. The comparison requires stop, sibilant, and vowel approximation; the Linear A name remains untranslated. Cf. the Amarna PN Tagi.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DI-KI-SE.
- Hurriantagitagi ‘beautiful’; tagiše/tegiše ‘beautiful’ or ‘beauty’, written t/da-a-ki-ši and ta-(a)-ki-(e)-še (Laroche, Glossaire hourrite, pp. 249–50)
- AmarnaTagi (EA 264–66), mayor of Gintikirmil—Hurrian name, same root