# A-MA-JA (ʿAmmaya)

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

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

- Reading: ʿAmmaya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕamm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/44/index.md>) 'relative' 1, 'uncle' 2, 'ancestor' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · MA (ma) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: PN 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)
- Amorite: ʾAMAT-AN, A-MA-TA-AN (Gelb 1980 no. 404), rival

## Attestations

- [KH 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH14/index.md>): A-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.

## Same root

- [A-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA/index.md>) (ʿamma)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))
- [\*306+MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306~2BMI/index.md>) (ʿAmmī)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-MA-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- 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
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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