JA-SA-JA

personal name '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic

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Reading: Yašʿaya
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *yṯʿ ‘to help, save’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Amoriteia-še-ia (GlOS 2, 379); JIŠʿ-IJA (see note)
Amarnaya-šu-ia (EA 256:18; Hess 1993, 166)

Attestations1 cited

KN Zg 55JA-SA-JA

Commentary

KN Zg 55, a steatite disk seal (CMS II 2, no. 213): face a a boar’s head and knife, face b JA-SA-JA, the whole text, SA underlined in Younger’s text (Younger, Linear A Texts, Other Texts: Knossos). Amorite JŠʿ ‘to help’, jišʿum ‘help’, and the hypocoristic name Jišʿ-ija (Gelb 1980, 22; no. 3768): ʿ unwritten, -JA the hypocoristic ending. Rival: an abbreviation of JA-SA-SA-RA (Younger). One attestation. See JA-SI and JA-SI-E.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

PK Za 8Palaikastroja-saMatched on its surviving signs