# JA-JA-\[…\] (ḥayyā)

> 'the Living One', title of the Goddess

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

- Reading: ḥayyā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḥayy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2760/index.md>) 'to live, be alive; life'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎊 *ḥy* — ḥy (I) 'alive' (DULAT 376)
- Hebrew: *ḥay* — ḥay 'living, alive' (HALOT 308)
- Amorite: ḤJJ 'live': ḥajjum, ḥajja, jaḥī (Gelb AS 21, 19)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 18](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa18/index.md>): \]-TE I-DA JA-JA-\[…\] — [untranslated fragment]
- [SY Za 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa8/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-JA-\[…\] — [untranslated fragment]

## Commentary

PK Za 18 I-DA · JA-JA-[…], on a stone vessel, after the fully delimited I-DA, and SY Za 8 A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA · JA-JA-[…], after the libation-formula opener. Both positions take a theonym or divine epithet. √ḥ-y-y 'live': Heb. ḥāyâ 'to be alive' (HALOT 310), ḥayyā 'the Living One'. No HA precedes JA-JA, and Aegean spelling leaves h unwritten: Linear B e-qe-ta /hekwetās/, e-qe-ta-i /hekwetāhi/, a-mo-ta /harmota/ and a-u-po-no /ahupnos/ (Chadwick and Baumbach 1963, s.vv. ἕπομαι, ἅρμα, ἀ-/ἀν-). Weak point: both stand on fragments that break after the second JA, where a divider may follow. Two attestations.

## Same root

- [A-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-JA/index.md>) (ḥayyā)
- [JA-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WI/index.md>) (Yawī)
- [A-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-JU/index.md>) (Ḥayyu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Chadwick and Baumbach 1963
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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
- Chadwick, John; Baumbach, Lydia (1963), The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary. Glotta,41.3/4,Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,157–271

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