# KA-U-DE-TA (Kaw-tatta)

> Kaw-tatta (Hurrian personal name), kaw- + tatt- 'love'; rival Ugaritic PN kwt

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Kaw-tatta
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Hurrian; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [KA-U-DE-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-U-DE-TA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Kaw-tatta: Hurrian kaw (NPN 224) + tatt- 'love' (NPN 263), Tatta written da-da, da-da-e at Terqa (Monti 2017, 325), heading the HT 13 wine list. Cf. Kawinni, written Qa-wi-in-ni, Qa-we-en-ni, Ka-wi-ni and Ga-wi-in (NPN 224). Rival: the Ugaritic name kwt (DULAT 469).

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>)

## References

- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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