# JA-SA (yašar) > righteous, upright (clipped form of yasaramu; may converge with \*y-s "to heal" in onomastic contexts—cf. Greek ἰάομαι, Iāsōn, no secure IE etymology) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: yašar - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*yašar-]() 'straight' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: JA (ja) · SA (sa) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: *yāšār* — yāšār 'straight, upright' (HALOT 450) - Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'uprightness, lawfulness' (DULAT 973) - Phoenician: 𐤉𐤔𐤓 *yšr* — yšr 'good, righteous' (Krahmalkov 218) - Amorite: JŚR 'be straight': jaśar, jīśar, jaśarum (Gelb AS 21, 22) - Akkadian: *išaru* — išaru 'normal, prosperous, just' (CAD I/J 224) ## Attestations - [MA Zb 8](): JA-SA - [PH 16b](): JA-SA ## Commentary MA Zb 8, bare JA-SA on a clay vessel, and PH 16b, on a fragmentary lame: two standalone witnesses at two sites, the clipped yašar 'righteous, upright' without the mimated -am of the formula word JA-SA-SA-RA-ME, an epithet in short votive texts. SA writes both s and š, so standalone JA-SA also admits *y-s 'to heal'. Rival: the healer, from Greek ἰάομαι 'to heal'; Beekes counts Ἰᾱ́σων among the words in which Pre-Greek initial ya- may stand as ἰα- (Beekes 2014, 7). Iāsōn and Iasion derive from it (Astour 1965, 276–282), and the agentive -ān (Gordon 1966 §155) gives *yasā-ān > Iāsōn, as Rpan from √r-p-ʾ (Astour 1965, 252); LB i-ja-te iatēr 'surgeon' at Pylos has the root. Against the rival, neither Malia nor Phaistos has an Iasion cult. Cf. SI-RU-TE, where the same merger joins √š-r-t and √š-y-r. See JA-SA-RA, JA-SA-SA-RA-ME and JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA. ## Same root - [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME]() (yaššaram) - [A-SA-SA-RA-ME]() (ʾaššaram) - [I-MI-SA-RA]() (Il-Mīšar) - [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI]() (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī) - [I-SA-RI]() (ʾišarī) - [JA-SA-RA]() (yašara) - [JA-SA-SA-RA]() (yaššar-) - [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA]() (yaššaram=na) ## Related forms - JA-SA-SA-RA-ME - A-SA-SA-RA-ME - JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA ## References - Reading: di Mino; Beekes 2014; Astour 1965; Gordon 1966 - Astour, Michael C. (1965), Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece. Brill - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 - 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 - Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014), Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon. Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages 2,Brill --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA/ 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 add28e94.