# DA-SI-\*118 (Ḏā-šiṭṭa) > those of Acacia (gentilic, a roster unit); rival the unglossed Dasiṭa A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Ḏā-šiṭṭa - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*šint-]() 'acacia' - Kind: Personnel - Language: Semitic - Signs: DA (da) · SI (si) · \*118 ## Compared forms - Egyptian: *šnd.t* — šnd.t 'acacia', the source of the Semitic loan - Hebrew: šiṭṭâ, pl. šiṭṭîm 'acacia' (HALOT 1473); place names Beth-Shittah (Judg 7:22), Abel-Shittim (Num 33:49) - Akkadian: šamṭu, šanṭu (HALOT 1473) ## Attestations - [HT 13](): DA-SI-\*118 19 — those of Acacia (a roster unit), 19 - [HT 85a](): DA-SI-\*118 24 — those of Acacia (a group of 24 men) - [HT 122a](): DA-SI-\*118 2 — those of Acacia (gentilic, a roster unit) - [HT 99b](): DA-SI-\*118 2 ## Commentary HT 13 DA-SI-*118 19 (wine list, beside KU-ZU-NI 18); HT 85a 24 (men, under A-DU · *307+*307, beside KU-ZU-NI 5); HT 122a 2 (men); HT 99b 2. Three scribes count it as a unit. ḏā 'those of', as in DA-NA-SI Ḏā-Naśiʾ, + ši-ṭa, Heb. šiṭṭâ 'acacia' (HALOT 1473), from *šint-, the n unwritten or assimilated. *118 = ṭa: s-t and s-d give no acacia. Weak point: *118 = ṭa is a proposed value. Four attestations. ## In the onomasticon - [DA-SI-\*118](): Gentilic, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-SI-*118/ 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/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.