Personal name · Semitic
TE-TU
personal name; Ugaritic tt, syllabic te-et-te, tu-tu
- Reading
- Tetu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 3
- Lexicon
- TE-TU
Commentary
A man counted one on the rosters HT 7a and HT 85b, and the largest share (56) of the HT 13 wine list. Ugarit has the personal name tt, syllabic te-et-te, tu-tu (DULAT 869); a pet-name type, also Egyptian tt.w and Hurrian–Hittite Tuttu. See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry TE-TU.
- Ugaritictt PN, etym. unc., syllabic te-et-te, tu-ut-ti, tu-tu (DULAT 869)
- AkkadianTette, {1}te-et-te, king of Nuḫašše, RS 17.334 (Kinlaw 1967, 119)
- HurrianTuttu, tu-ut-tu, Mari (Monti 2017, 308)
- Egyptiantt.w, 12th Dynasty to Thutmose III (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142606772; Ranke I, 385.27)