A-MA-JA

(Little) kinsman (personal name, hypocoristic); rival ʾAmaya 'maidservant'

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Reading
ʿAmmaya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʕamm- ‘relative’ 1, ‘uncle’ 2, ‘ancestor’ 3
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • UgariticPN ʿmy ʿAmmaya (KTU 4.16:4), syll. am-ma-ya (DULAT 164); PN ảmy (KTU 2.76:3), syll. am-ma-ia (RS 88.2158:31') (DULAT 73)
  • AmoriteʾAMAT-AN, A-MA-TA-AN (Gelb 1980 no. 404), rival

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 14A-MA-JA CYP 6

Commentary

KH 14 .1 ]RA · A-MA-JA · CYP 6[, whole and undotted between dividers, a cyperus recipient (GORILA III 45). A-MA ʿamma ‘kinsman’ + hypocoristic -ya, as A-SU-JA, PA-SE-JA: the Ugaritic name ʿmy ʿAmmaya (KTU 4.16:4), syllabic am-ma-ya (DULAT 164). Rival: ʾAmaya, short for ʾamat- ‘maidservant’ (Ug. amt, DULAT 71), with t lost.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon