# A-MA-WA-SI (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)

> the Kinsman who comes forth (El epithet); rival 'Strong One'

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

- Reading: ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕamm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/44/index.md>) 'relative' 1, 'uncle' 2, 'ancestor' 3 + [\*wVṣ̂Vʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0448/index.md>) 'leave' 1, 'exit, issue' 2
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · MA (ma) · WA (wa) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *ʿammum* — ʿammum 'paternal uncle' (Gelb AS 21, 15); Yawṣiʾ-ʾIl 'El has come forth' (Gelb AS 21, no. 3574)
- Ugaritic: *yṣʾ* — yṣʾ 'to go out, appear' (DULAT 969)

## Attestations

- [CR Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZf1/index.md>): A-MA-WA-SI KA-NI-JA-MI I-JA QA-KI-SE-NU-TI A-TA-DE — the Kinsman who comes forth (divine epithet)

## Commentary

CR(?) Zf 1, a gold pin: A-MA-WA-SI · KA-NI-JA-MI · I-JA · QA-KI-SE-NU-TI · A-TA-DE. A-MA-WA-SI opens the text beside KA-NI-JA-MI 'Creator of the Sea': ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ 'the Kinsman who comes forth', A-MA ʿamma 'kinsman' (as A-MA, A-MA-JA ʿAmmaya) with WA-SI wāṣi(ʾ), active participle of √w-ṣ-ʾ 'go out, appear', the final ʾ unwritten. Every sign is read. The type is A-MI-DA-U ʿAmmī-dāʿ's, and Amorite sets the same verb on El: Yawṣiʾ-ʾIl 'El has come forth' (Gelb AS 21, no. 3574). Rivals: ʾammāṣ 'Strong One', √ʾ-m-ṣ (PS *ʾVmVṣ-), Heb. ʾammîṣ, said of YHWH (Job 9:4, 19; HALOT 63), Ug. ảmṣ (DULAT 71), which leaves -WA- unread; the dedicant's name. One attestation.

## Same root

- [SE-TO-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-TO-I-JA/index.md>) (Ṣētiya)
- [A-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA/index.md>) (ʿamma)
- [SI-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-JA-SE/index.md>) (šī-yāṣē)
- [SI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-TE/index.md>) (Ṣīt)
- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))
- [JA-PA-RA-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-RA-JA-SE/index.md>) (yapʾara yāṣē)
- [JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SE/index.md>) (yāṣē)
- [\*306+MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306~2BMI/index.md>) (ʿAmmī)
- [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-JA/index.md>) (ʿAmmaya)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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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