# A-SA-SA-RA-ME (ʾaššaram) > uprightly, in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾaššaram - Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal. - Root: [\*yašar-]() 'straight' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · SA (sa) · SA (sa) · RA (ra) · ME (me) - Rank: #7 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: יָשָׁר *yāšār* — yāšār (יָשָׁר) 'upright, straight, righteous' (Deut 32:4, Ps 119:137, 1 Kgs 9:4, Prov 2:7); yōšer (יֹשֶׁר) 'uprightness, equity' (Ps 111:8, Prov 2:13); √y-š-r 'to be straight'; Yeshurun (יְשֻׁרוּן) poetic name for Israel = 'the upright one' (Deut 32:15, 33:5, 33:26, Isa 44:2); cf. Num 23:10 yĕšārīm (Balaam's pun on Yeshurun) - Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'straight, upright' (DULAT 973); yšr in ritual context = moral/cultic fitness - Akkadian: *ešēru* — ešēru 'to be/go straight, prosper' (CAD E 354); išaru 'straight, just, normal'; mīšaru 'justice, equity' (CAD M/II 116)—Hammurabi's mīšarum edicts: royal debt-release decrees that 'set things straight' - Arabic: يسر *yasara* — yasara (يسر) 'to be easy, smooth'; yasār 'ease, prosperity' ## Attestations - [IO Zb 10](): A-SA-SA-RA-ME — in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-) - [PR Za 1](): A-SA-SA-RA-ME — in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-) - [PK Za 11](): \[?\]-RE PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE A — in righteousness (cf. IO Za 2) ## Commentary IO Zb 10, PR Za 1 and PK Za 11: the Iouktas, Prassa and Palaikastro spelling of JA-SA-SA-RA-ME, with ʾA- for JA- (ya-), whose reading and cognates it shares. On PR Za 1 RA is drawn reversed, the A802 form, normalized RA (GORILA IV 48); PK Za 11 writes · A, then SA-SA-RA-ME · on the next line, with no divider between. Ebla writes the same base with a- for ya-: the names a-sa-ar, a-sa-ra /yaSar/, beside Amorite ia-sa-rum and a-ša-ru-um (GlOS 2, 377). The JA-/A- alternation runs through the formula verb too (A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, JA-TA-I-*301-U-JA): a person marker or article variant on one root. ## Same root - [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME]() (yaššaram) - [I-MI-SA-RA]() (Il-Mīšar) - [JA-SA]() (yašar) - [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI]() (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī) - [I-SA-RI]() (ʾišarī) - [JA-SA-RA]() (yašara) - [JA-SA-SA-RA]() (yaššar-) - [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA]() (yaššaram=na) ## References - Reading: Gordon 1966; di Mino - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin - 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 - CAD E: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1958), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 4, E. The Oriental Institute, Chicago - GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris - GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.