A-SE-SI-NA

of dry grass, of hay (genitive with nunation; ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow', the field's name)

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Reading: ḥašīšin
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ḥšš ‘dry grass, fodder’
Kind: Toponym
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Hebrewḥăšašḥăšaš ‘dried grass, foliage’ (Is 5:24; 33:11) (HALOT 363)
Arabicḥašīšḥašīš ‘dry herbage; dry pasture, or fodder … cut herbage’, ‘one of the best pastures for camels, or for camels and sheep and goats’ (Lane 573); ḥašša ‘to mow’ (HALOT 363)

Attestations1 cited

PE 1U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NAof hay, of dry grass: ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow' (heading, the field's name)

Commentary

PE 1 .1–2 U-KA-RE · A-SE-SI-NA, the divider after RE in the photograph and the facsimile; the heading over KU-PA-RI VIR 5̣0[ and E-KA[ VIR 72, each with grain at ½ unit a head (Younger, Linear A Texts). ḥa-šī-ši-n: A for ḥa, the ḥ unwritten, as A-NA-NE ḥanān; SI the genitive -i after the construct ʾugār; NA the nunation -n, its vowel dead. A hay meadow worked by the crews it feeds, as the men who worked the ugāru draw provisions (BE 14 56a:26; CAD U/W 30). SE writes šī, as A-SE beside A-SI. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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