Personal name · Semitic
QA-TI-JU
Qātilu (personal name), 'killer'; rival Hurrian Katiya 'He/She said'
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Commentary
Qātilu: the qātil participle of *ḳtl ‘kill’, a name in Safaitic qtl and Arabic Qātila (Harding 1971, 476), recipient of 8 on ZA 14. Rival: Hurrian Katiya ‘He/She said’ (Mari ka-ti-ia, Monti 2017, 255).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry QA-TI-JU.
- Safaiticqtl PN; Arabic Qātila, Qattāl (Harding 1971, 476)
- HurrianKatiya, ka-ti-ia, kad=i=ya ‘He/She said’, Mari (Monti 2017, 255); Nuzi Kataja, Qa-ta-a-a (NPN 224)