Personal name · Semitic

KO-A-DU-WA

personal name, 'Hope in Addu' (Amorite Quwi-Haddu); rival an Anatolian name in Kuwa-

Reading
Qō-Addua
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Tylissos
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KO-A-DU-WA

Commentary

TY 3a .6 KO-A-DU-WA [OLE] 7⅕, under Ạ-DA OLE+U 21 (GORILA I 327). Qō-Addu ‘Hope in Addu’, as Amorite Quwi-Haddu (Gelb AS 21, no. 4146, Mari) and Quwum-Haddu (no. 4162, Ugarit); Ugaritic qwy ‘Awaited’ (Watson 2012, 336). The final -a: Hadda, the god’s other name, or a feminine -a(t). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KO-A-DU-WA.

  • AmoriteGelb AS 21: Quwi-Haddu KU-U₂-ᴰ-IM (no. 4146, Mari); Quwum-Haddu KU-UM-ᴰ-U (no. 4162, Ugarit, MRS XVI 9:7)
  • Ugariticqwy, personal name ‘Awaited’ (KTU 4.795:11; DULAT 710; Watson 2012, 336)
  • Hebrewקָוָהqāwāhקָוָה qāwāh ‘await, hope’ (HALOT 1082)
  • Akkadianquʾʾûquʾʾû ‘to wait’ (CAD Q 328)

Outside the corpus

amorite_names:KU-U₂-D-IM

Linear A Lexicon