# A-JE (ʾaye)

> island

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾaye
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0604/index.md>) 'island'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · JE (je)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: אִי *ʾī* — ʾī (אִי) "island, coastland"
- Ugaritic: *iht* — iht (pl.) "islands, coastal region" (KTU 1.3 VI 8)

## Attestations

- [THE Zb 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/THEZb7/index.md>): A-JE

## Commentary

THE Zb 7, a clay vessel from Thera: the sole word on it, inscribed on an island, a label of origin or dedication. A dialect form of I-JA /ʾiya/ (Knossos) and I-JA-TE /ʾiyyate/ (Phaistos): A-JE at Thera against I-JA at East Cretan sites is regional vowel variation, as the libation formulae differ between Phaistos and East Crete. Ug. ỉht 'islands, coastal region' (DULAT 31). One attestation.

## Same root

- [I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-JA/index.md>) (ʾiya)
- [I-JA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-JA-TE/index.md>) (ʾiyyate)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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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