I-JA-TE

island (genitive after SI-MA 'name of'; -i written with an E-series sign)

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Reading: ʾiyyate
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *ʾVy- ‘island’
Kind: Toponym
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Hebrewאִיʾīʾī (אִי) "island, coastland" (BDB 15); pl. ʾiyyîm
Ugariticihtiht (pl. cstr.) "islands, coastal region" (KTU 1.3 VI 8)
Phoenician𐤀𐤉ʾyʾy "island" (KAI 14.18)

Attestations1 cited

PH Zb 4 3DSI-MA I-JA-TEisland (feminine construct, √ʾ-y)

Commentary

PH Zb 4, a clay vessel from Phaistos: SI-MA · I-JA-TE, šima ʾiyyate ‘name of the island’. Heb. ʾî ‘coast, island’ (HALOT 38), pl. ʾiyyîm: the base ʾiyy- with the feminine -at-, and the genitive -i after the construct SI-MA written with an E-series sign. A-JE ʾaye (Thera) and I-JA ʾiya (Knossos) spell the same noun. One attestation. See SI-MA and I-JA.

On the 3D inscriptions2 inscriptions

KN Za 10Knossos…i-jaMatched on its surviving signs PH Zb 4Phaistosi-ja-te