# A-SE-SI-NA (ḥašīšin)

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

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

- Reading: ḥašīšin
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḥšš](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3865/index.md>) 'dry grass, fodder; to mow'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · SE (se) · SI (si) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ḥăšaš* — ḥăšaš 'dried grass, foliage' (Is 5:24; 33:11) (HALOT 363)
- Arabic: *ḥašīš* — ḥašīš '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)

## Attestations

- [PE 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE1/index.md>): U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA — of 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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Lane
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD U/W: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2010), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 20, U and W. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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