# I-JA (ʾiya)

> island

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

- Reading: ʾiya
- 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)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: אִי *ʾî* — ʾî (אִי) 'island, coastland', šəʾērît ʾî Kaptôr 'the remnant of the island of Caphtor' (Jer 47:4)
- Ugaritic: *ỉht* — ỉht (pl. cstr.) 'islands, coastal region' (KTU 1.3 VI 8; DULAT 31; GlOS 1, 60)

## Attestations

- [KN Za 10](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZa10/index.md>): NA DA-WA-\[?\]-DU-WA-TO I-JA\[ — [damaged fragment]
- [CR Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZf1/index.md>): A-MA-WA-SI KA-NI-JA-MI I-JA QA-KI-SE-NU-TI A-TA-DE — island

## Commentary

CR Zf 1 A-MA-WA-SI · KA-NI-JA-MI · I-JA · QA-KI-SE-NU-TI · A-TA-DE: I-JA complete, after KA-NI-JA-MI qāniy-yammi 'Creator of the Sea'; KN Za 10 I-JA[ breaks after JA. ʾiy 'island', as Hebrew ʾî Kaptôr, Crete itself (Jer 47:4). Rivals: the vocative yā; the name element ʾIyya 'where?' (Emar i-ia; GlOS 1, 59). See A-JE.

## Same root

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; GlOS 1
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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