Personal name · Semitic

DU-ZU-WA

He of the Lord (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + ṯuwāʕ 'lord'); rival 'the noble one'

Reading
ḏū-ṯuwāʕ
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
DU-ZU-WA

Commentary

ḏū-ṯuwāʕ: DU ḏū ‘he of’, as Amorite Zu-ḫa-di-im (Huffmon 1965, 186), + ZU-WA ṯuwā(ʕ) ‘lord’, Akkadian šuwāʾu, Old Akkadian su-wa-um (CAD Š/3 417). A recipient of grain under JE-DI on HT 36. Rival: ‘the noble one’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DU-ZU-WA.

  • Amoritezu, *ḏū ‘he of’ in names: Zu-ḫa-di-im, Zu-ḫa-at-nim (Huffmon 1965, 186)
  • Akkadianšuʾûšuʾû A (šuwāʾu) ‘master, lord’; šu-ʾ-u = šarru (LTBA 2 2:30); Old Akkadian appellative su-wa-um, a recipient of land (BIN 8 203:9) (CAD Š/3 417)
  • Ugariticṯʕṯʕ (II) ‘Hero, Noble’, title of Kirta: krt ṯʕ (KTU 1.14 IV 37) (DULAT 879–880); Gordon reads ‘Kret of Thaʿ’, a tribe the scribe Ilimilku shares as ‘the Thaʿite’ (Gordon 1966, 74 n. 30, 120 n. 75)
  • Hebrewšôaʿšôaʿ ‘noble, eminent’ (HALOT 1444)
Linear A Lexicon