# DA-NA-SI (Ḏā-Naśiʾ)

> He of Naśiʾ (personal name heading HT 126a)

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

- Reading: Ḏā-Naśiʾ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nśʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S38/index.md>) 'to lift, carry, bear' 1, 'chief, prince (one lifted up)' 2, 'to take away, forgive' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · NA (na) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: Naśiʾ DN, written NA-SI: Niqmi-la-Naśiʾ NI-IQ-MI-LA-NA-SI (Gelb no. 5051), Yadur-Naśiʾ IA-DU-UR-NA-SI (no. 3218); ḏu 'he/she of', written ZU (Gelb 1980, 18)
- Hebrew: נָשִׂיא *nāśîʾ* — nāśîʾ נָשִׂיא 'leader, prince' (HALOT 727): nəśîʾ ʾĕlōhîm נְשִׂיא אֱלֹהִים 'a prince of God' (Gen 23:6), wə-nāśîʾ bə-ʿammǝkā lōʾ tāʾōr וְנָשִׂיא בְעַמְּךָ לֹא תָאֹר (Exod 22:27), nəśîʾê maṭṭôt נְשִׂיאֵי מַטּוֹת (Num 1:16)

## Attestations

- [HT 126a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT126a/index.md>): DA-NA-SI \*318 — untranslated administrative heading or entity

## Commentary

HT 126a .1 DA-NA-SI · *318 ·, heading the tablet, before A-NA-[·] 1 and SI-DI-JA 1 (GORILA I 217). ḏā 'the one of', as in DA-MI-NU, + Naśiʾ, the Amorite god of NŠʾ 'to carry, to raise' (Gelb 1980, 27), whom Gelb's names write NA-SI sign for sign: IA-AḪ-WI-NA-SI, IA-DU-UR-NA-SI, NI-IQ-MI-LA-NA-SI, ZI-ID-KU-LA-NA-SI (nos. 2874, 3218, 5051, 6457). 'He of Naśiʾ', the type of Amorite Zu-dIš-ḫa-ra 'He of Išḫara' (Gelb no. 6598). NA-SI also closes U-MI-NA-SI, the heading of HT 117a and HT 28b. Rival: ḏā-Nasr, the god Nasr of Ḥimyar (Q 71:23; Faris 1952, 10), with r unwritten.

## Same root

- [NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NA-SI/index.md>) (nasīʾ)

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-NA-SI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Faris 1952
- Ibn al-Kalbi, Hisham; Faris, Nabih Amin (tr.) (1952), The Book of Idols: Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Aṣnām. Princeton University Press
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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