# JA-KI-SI-KI-NU (yaksīkin)

> May he cover you (f. pl.)! (3ms G imperfect yaksī + 2fp object suffix -kin; NU writes the final nasal, as in -U-TI-NU)

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

- Reading: yaksīkin
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kVsVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0104/index.md>) 'cover'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · KI (ki) · SI (si) · KI (ki) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: כָּסָה *kāsā* — kāsā (כָּסָה) 'to cover' (Jonah 3:6 wayekas śaq—same root with ashes in penitential context)
- Ugaritic: yks, tks, G prefix 'cover' (GlOS 1, 325)
- Amorite: Yaksiy-ʾIl, with the prefix form yaksiy (Gelb 1980, nos. 22, 2918); Mari ia-ak-sí-ia (GlOS 1, 325)
- Arabic: كسا *kasā* — kasā (كسا) 'to clothe, cover'
- Akkadian: *kasû* — kasû 'to bind, cover'
- 2fp object suffix: Ugaritic -kn; Hebrew -ḵen; Akkadian -kina; Arabic -kunna (Fischer 2002, §268)

## Attestations

- [ARKH Zf 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKHZf9/index.md>): JA-KI-SI-KI-NU MI-DA-RU-RA — May he cover you (f. pl.)!

## Commentary

ARKH Zf 9, a bronze votive object from Arkhanes: JA-KI-SI-KI-NU · MI-DA-RU-RA ·, the first of two words. yaksīkin 'May he cover you (women)!': ya-, the 3ms prefix, the G-stem imperfect *yaksī of √k-s-y 'to cover', a III-weak root, and -kin, the 2fp object suffix, NU writing the final nasal. 'Cover' takes a second object, the covering, MI-DA-RU-RA. Jonah 3:6 וַיְכַ֣ס שַׂ֔ק וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הָאֵֽפֶר 'he covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the ashes' joins √k-s-y and ashes in penitence before God, and Jonah 3:8 וְיִתְכַּסּ֣וּ שַׂקִּ֗ים 'let them cover themselves with sackcloth' has the Hithpael (tD) of the same root. One attestation. See MI-DA-RU-RA and MI-KI-SE-NA.

## Same root

- [MI-KI-SE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-KI-SE-NA/index.md>) (miksēna)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 1
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- 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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