Personal name · Semitic

SE-KU-TU

personal name, 'Calm, at rest'; rival Zakūtu 'pure, innocent'

Reading
Šakūtu
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
SE-KU-TU

Commentary

HT 115a .3 SE-KU-TU ½, a recipient (GORILA I 188–189). Šakūtu ‘Calm’, √š-k-t ‘be quiet, rest’ (Akk. sakātu, CAD S 74). Rival: Zakūtu ‘pure’, Ebla za-ku-tu (Pagan 1998, row 5026). One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SE-KU-TU.

  • Akkadiansakātusakātu ‘to be silent’ (CAD S 74)
  • AmoriteYa-ās-qī-iṭ-AN, ‘rest’ in a name, where Huffmon allows skt ‘be calm’ (Huffmon, APNM 253)
  • Eblaiteḏakūtuza-ku-tu /ḏakūtu/ ‘innocent’ (Pagan 1998, row 5026), rival, PS *zVkVy-
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