# A-WA-PI (ʾawpiʿ)

> personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')

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

- Reading: ʾawpiʿ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*yVpVʕ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/782/index.md>) 'shine' 1, 'go up, rise' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · WA (wa) · PI (pi)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: הוֹפִיעַ *hôpîaʿ* — הוֹפִיעַ hôpîaʿ "shone forth" (hiphil; Deut 33:2, Ps 50:2; HALOT 424)
- Amorite: **wpʿ* — *wpʿ 'be brilliant', apart from *ypʿ 'raise up': Ya-a-pa-aḫ-ᵈIM, Ya-pí-iḫ-ᵈIM (Huffmon 1965, 212); yapiʕ 'radiant' in names (GlOS 2, 375)
- Ugaritic: *y-p-ʿ* — /y-p-ʿ/ "to go up, rise"; PN ypʿ, syll. ia-pa-ú; ypʿbʿl, ypʿmlk (DULAT 958–959)
- Egyptian: group writing y-w-pꜢ-ʕ, a name with the w-glide (GlOS 2, 374, after Schneider, APÄQ 53)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of *wpʿ 'be brilliant', Huffmon 1965, 212; Heb. hôpîaʿ)

## Commentary

KN Zf 31 · A-WA-PI ·, undotted, between dividers (GORILA IV 155), among the man's names. Causative with ʾa-, final ʿ unwritten. The w is the root's: Huffmon separates *wpʿ 'be brilliant' from *ypʿ 'raise up' (1965, 212), and Heb. hôpîaʿ, the theophany verb (Deut 33:2; Ps 50:2; 80:2), keeps it in ô < aw. The bare verb as a name, as Ug. ypʿ, syllabic ia-pa-ú (DULAT 958), and Amorite Ya-a-pa-aḫ. Cf. JA-WA-[?] on PE Zb 7, its third sign unread, for the prefix form. Rival: ʿawp 'bird' (Heb. ʿôp), which would need *306 for ʿa. See JA-PA.

## Same root

- [JA-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA/index.md>) (Yapaʿ(u))
- [JA-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WA-PI/index.md>) (Yawpiʿ)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-WA-PI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Huffmon 1965; GlOS 2
- 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
- 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
- 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

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