Personal name · Semitic

KO-JA

personal name, Amorite type (quwy- 'wait for, hope'); rival 'be strong'

Reading
Qōya
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KO-JA

Commentary

HT 119 .2 KO-JA 10, the second named entry of a personnel list. A hypocoristic on Amorite QWJ, ‘wait for, hope’ or ‘be strong’ (Gelb, AS 21: KU-IA-UM no. 4109, KU-WU-UM no. 4188, KU-IA-TUM no. 4108, KU-U₂-D-DA-GAN no. 4145, KU-U₂-D-IM no. 4146). KO for /qō/: cuneiform cannot show o. Weak points: two signs, the vowel. One attestation.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KO-JA.

  • AmoriteGelb AS 21 root QWJ (unglossed): Quwyum KU-IA-UM (no. 4109), KU-WU-UM (no. 4188); -at- form Kuyatum KU-IA-TUM (no. 4108); theophorics Quwi-Dagan KU-U₂-D-DA-GAN (no. 4145), Quwi-Haddu KU-U₂-D-IM (no. 4146, Mari), Quwi-Yaraḫ KU-WE-RA-AH (no. 4187), KU-UM-D-U (no. 4162, Ugarit MRS XVI 9:7)
  • Hebrewקָוָהqāwāhקָוָה qāwāh ‘wait for, hope’ (HALOT 1082); קַוֵּה אֶל־יְהוָה ‘wait for YHWH’ (Ps 27:14)
  • Akkadianquʾʾûquʾʾû ‘to wait’ (CAD Q 328)
  • Arabicقويqawiyaقوي qawiya ‘be strong’ (Lane 2997)

Outside the corpus

amorite_names:KU-IA-UM

Linear A Lexicon