# KA-U-ZU-NI (Kawṯuni)

> Kawṯuni (Hurrian personal name Kaw-šuni); rival Kawṯān, Heb. Kûšān

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

- Reading: Kawṯuni
- 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-ZU-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-U-ZU-NI/index.md>)

## Commentary

Kawṯuni: Hurrian kaw (NPN 224) + -šuni (Awa-šuni, NPN 208), Hurrian š written ṯ as Ugaritic ảủpṯ for ảủpš (DULAT 4), four men on HT 26b. Same base as KA-U-DE-TA Kaw-tatta. Rival: Kawṯān, Heb. Kûšān (DULAT 467).

## Attestations

- [HT 26b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26b/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

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