# JA-SA-JA (Yašʿaya) > personal name '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Yašʿaya - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*yṯʿ]() 'to help, save' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: JA (ja) · SA (sa) · JA (ja) ## Compared forms - Amorite: ia-še-ia (GlOS 2, 379); JIŠʿ-IJA (see note) - Amarna: ya-šu-ia (EA 256:18; Hess 1993, 166) ## Attestations - [KN Zg 55](): JA-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. ## Same root - [JA-SI]() (yašīʿ) - [JA-SI-E]() (yašīʿ-ē) ## In the onomasticon - [JA-SA-JA](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 2; Younger, Linear A Texts - EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Hess, Richard S. (1993), Amarna Personal Names. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series 9) - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-JA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.