Personal name · Semitic
KU-RE-JU
Kulelu (personal name; cf. Middle Assyrian Kulilu)
- Reading
- Kulelu
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- KU-RE-JU
Commentary
The HT117b roster fixes the personal-name slot. The Middle Assyrian Kulilu parallel is formally close but does not establish the Linear A name’s etymology; Amorite k-l-l names remain secondary comparisons. Kulilu is written ki-li-lu at Tell Sabi Abyad.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KU-RE-JU.
- Middle AssyrianKulilu, written {m}ki-li-lu, T 98-038 obv. 4', Dunni-Aššur/Tell Sabi Abyad (ORACC P532066)
- Neo-AssyrianKullulu, written {1}ku-lu-lu, SAA 6 22 rev. 9'
- AmoriteKU-LA-IL-E and KI+L-I+IL (secondary k-l-l name-family comparisons; Gelb, AS 21 nos. 4114, 4065–66)
- Ugaritic𐎋𐎍𐎍kllkll ‘entirety, everything’
- Hebrewכָּלַלkālalkālal (כָּלַל) ‘to complete, perfect’; kalīl ‘entire, whole (offering)’
- Akkadiankalûkalû ‘all, entirety’; kilīlu ‘circlet, wreath’