# KU-ZU-NI (Kuṯinu)

> personal name, as Ugaritic Kušinu (kṯn)

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

- Reading: Kuṯinu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [KU-ZU-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-ZU-NI/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 85a KU-ZU-NI 5, in a roster counted under VIR; HT 13 KU-ZU-NI 18, in the KA-U-DE-TA wine list (KU-RO 130½). Ugaritic kṯn, syllabic ku-ši-nu (Kinlaw 1967, 76), ki-še-na, etym. unc. (DULAT s.v. kṯn (I)); ZU writes ṯ. Rival: Ug. ktn 'tunic', which has t, not ṯ.

## Attestations

- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>)
- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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