# I-JA-TE (ʾiyyate)

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

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

- Reading: ʾiyyate
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0604/index.md>) 'island'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · JA (ja) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: אִי *ʾī* — ʾī (אִי) "island, coastland" (BDB 15); pl. ʾiyyîm
- Ugaritic: *iht* — iht (pl. cstr.) "islands, coastal region" (KTU 1.3 VI 8)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤉 *ʾy* — ʾy "island" (KAI 14.18)

## Attestations

- [PH Zb 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHZb4/index.md>): SI-MA I-JA-TE — island (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.

## Same root

- [I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-JA/index.md>) (ʾiya)
- [A-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-JE/index.md>) (ʾaye)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company

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