# A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA (ʾatainawaya) > I make myself a dwelling (1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive denominative of √NWY) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾatainawaya - Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal. - Root: [\*nwy]() 'pasture land, grazing place' 1, 'abode, settlement' 2, 'to betake oneself to an abode' 3 - Kind: Verbal - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · TA (ta) · I (i) · \*301 · WA (wa) · JA (ja) - Rank: #2 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: נָוֶה *nāweh* — nāweh (נָוֶה) 'comely habitation, pasture' (Exod 15:13, Ps 23:2 [nĕʾōt, pl. construct], Isa 33:20, Jer 25:30); nāʾwāh (נָאוָה) 'comely' (Song 1:5); √n-w-y 'to dwell, settle' - Amorite: *nawûm* — nawûm 'steppe; encampment (man and beast)' (Huffmon, APNM 237); nawijum 'nomadic encampment' (Gelb, AS 21) - Akkadian: *namû* — namû A (nawû) 'pasture land … and its population and flocks; outlying area around a city' (CAD N/1, 249–51) - Arabic: نوى *nawā* — nawā (نوى) 'to intend, set out for'; nawan, an-nawā (النَّوَى) 'the abode, the place one sets out for' - Greek: ναός *naos* — ναός (naos) 'temple' < *nawos, same √n-w-y (Bernal 1987, Rendsburg 1989); cf. Exod 15:13 nəwēh qodšekhā 'Thy holy shrine' ## Attestations - [IO Za 2](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-DI-KI-TU JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\] \[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI I-PI-NA-MA — I make myself a dwelling - [IO Za 3](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA AU — I make myself a dwelling - [IO Za 7](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-TI-\*321\[ — I make myself a dwelling - [KO Za 1](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA — I make myself a dwelling - [TL Za 1](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA O-SU-QA-RE — I make myself a dwelling - [PK Za 12](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA A-DI-KI-TE-\[ — I make myself a dwelling - [SY Za 1](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA I-DA-MI JA — I make myself a dwelling - [SY Za 2](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-SU-MA-TU-OLIV 1 — I make myself a dwelling - [SY Za 3](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-\[ \]-KA-NA-\[ SI-RU-TE — I make myself a dwelling - [SY Za 4](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-I-NWA-RO PA₃-NI-WI — I make myself a dwelling - [SY Za 8](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-JA-\[…\] — I make myself a dwelling ## Commentary The verb that opens the libation formula: eleven attestations at five peak sanctuaries, Iouktas, Kophinas, Troullos, Palaikastro and Syme. A- is the 1cs prefix, -TA- the tG prefix, I an epenthetic i, and *301-WA-JA (*301 = na) the root √n-w-y: /ʾatainawaya/ 'I make myself a dwelling', denominative from nāweh 'abode', as hitnabbēʾ 'make oneself a prophet' from nābîʾ (di Mino, Ya Diktu). The tG is the stem of what the worshipper does to herself before the deity. Hebrew keeps it only in relics such as tirgaltî (Hos 11:3; Hutton and Marzouk 2012), Moabite has Gt wʾltḥm 'and I fought' (KAI 181:11, 15), and the act matches the Hitpaʿel wāʾetnappal lipnê YHWH 'and I prostrated myself before YHWH' (Deut 9:18), the same frame. A-TA-I- puts the -t- before the root, as Hebrew Hitpaʿel, Arabic Form V ta-faʿʿala and Geʿez tä-qätlä do; Akkadian infixes it (Gt). Exod 15:2 zeh ʾēlî wə-ʾanwēhû is 1cs √n-w-y with the deity as object, and Targum Onkelos renders it wə-ʾebnē lēh maqdəšā 'I will build Him a sanctuary'. Rival sense 'glorify him', beside wa-ʾărōməmennhû: HALOT files it under II נוה, and the Peshitta and Palestinian Targumim read 'praise'. Hebrew nāweh joins divine habitation to pasture (Exod 15:13; Ps 23:2; Isa 33:20; Jer 25:30; Ezek 34:14), and Amorite nawûm is 'steppe; encampment (man and beast)' (Huffmon 1965, 237). Same paradigm: Palaikastro A-TA-I-*301-WA-E (PK Za 11a), which weakens JA to E as A-SA-SA-RA-ME and A-DI-KI-TE-TE do there, and JA-TA-I-*301-U-JA (AP Za 1, 3ms). A-TA-I-*301-DE-KA and TA-NA-I-*301-(U-)TI(-NU) share the frame but are √ʿ-n-y 'answer' (di Mino, Ya Diktu). The root noun *301-WA nawā 'dwelling' stands on IO Za 4. Rival: Davis's functional gloss 'gives' (Davis 2026, in Salgarella and Petrakis eds., The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, 43–60). See TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU, the closing petition. ## Same root - [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E]() (ʾatainawē) - [\*301]() (nawā) - [I-NA-WA]() (ʾi-nawā) - [NU-WI]() (nōwē) ## References - Reading: di Mino - KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz - Rendsburg, Gary A. (1989), Black Athena: An Etymological Response. Arethusa,22,67–82 - Hutton, Jeremy M.; Marzouk, Safwat (2012), The Morphology of the tG-Stem in Hebrew and Tirgaltî in Hos 11:3. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures,12,1–41 - Bernal, Martin (1987), Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785–1985. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore - 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 - Davis, Brent (2026), Recent Linguistics-Based Advances in the Study of Linear A. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, pp. 43–60 - CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp. --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/ 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/. 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