# E-NA-SI (ʾenāš)

> men, people (section heading); rival copper, bronze

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

- Reading: ʾenāš
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*(ʾi-)nVš-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4/index.md>) 'man'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: E (e) · NA (na) · SI (si)

## Attestations

- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): E-NA-SI VIR+\*313b 10 — men, people (section heading); rival copper

## Commentary

KH 7a (Khania, LM IB): the heading over VIR+*313b 10, men of the *313b class, who draw ½ unit of CYP+D; each of the tablet's three sections draws CYP+D. ʾenāš 'men, people' (PS *(ʾi-)nVš-), E- the root's own initial, as JArm. ʔēnāš, SI writing the final š. Rival: naḥāši 'of copper' (PS *nVḥVš-), the interior ḥ unwritten, as no *314 sign occurs on any KH tablet: Emar naḫšu 'bronze(-vessel)', Amarna nuḫuštu (GlOS 2, 87); it leaves E- unexplained, since nəḥōšet and its cognates begin with n-. Weak point: the heading names the men VIR already counts. One witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- 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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