# I-SA-RI (ʾišarī)

> uprightness, righteousness (genitive after the b= proclitic)

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

- Reading: ʾišarī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*yašar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1446/index.md>) 'straight'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · SA (sa) · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: יֹשֶׁר *yōšer* — yōšer (יֹשֶׁר) 'uprightness, equity'; yāšār (יָשָׁר) 'upright'
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'straight, upright' (DULAT 973)
- Akkadian: *išaru* — išaru 'straight, just'; mīšaru 'justice, equity' (CAD M/II 116)
- Eblaite: *i-sa-rí* — i-sa-rí 'just, favourable' in running text; i-sar Yiśar, a name and DN (GlOS 2, 377; Pagan 1998, row 2604)

## Attestations

- [PH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH6/index.md>): I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI

## Commentary

PH 6: only within I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI, after the b= proclitic. The medial I writes the ʾ of ʾišar-, and the final -ī is the genitive a preposition governs (cf. la-piṭrī, PK Za 11). √y-š-r, the root of the formula's yaššaram (JA-SA-SA-RA-ME); the nominal shape is Akk. išaru 'straight, just, fair' (CAD I/J 224). See I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI.

## Same root

- [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (yaššaram)
- [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (ʾaššaram)
- [I-MI-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-MI-SA-RA/index.md>) (Il-Mīšar)
- [JA-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA/index.md>) (yašar)
- [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-PA~E2~82~83-I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī)
- [JA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yašara)
- [JA-SA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yaššar-)
- [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA/index.md>) (yaššaram=na)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; Pagan 1998
- CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- CAD I/J: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1960), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 7, I and J. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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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