# TE-TU (Tetu)

> personal name; Ugaritic tt, syllabic te-et-te, tu-tu

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

- Reading: Tetu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [TE-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-TU/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7a/index.md>)
- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>)
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/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

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