# KO-A-DU-WA (Qō-Addua)

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

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

- Reading: Qō-Addua
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Tylissos
- Lexicon: [KO-A-DU-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KO-A-DU-WA/index.md>)

## 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.

## Outside the corpus

amorite_names:KU-U₂-D-IM

## Attestations

- [TY 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY3a/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2012), Ugaritic Onomastics (8). Aula Orientalis,30,323–351

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