JA-SI-E

O Salvation—vocative/petitionary extension of yašīʿ

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Reading: yašīʿ-ē
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *yṯʿ ‘to help, save’
Kind: Ritual
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

see JA-SI

Attestations1 cited

KE Zb 4 3DJA-SI-EO Salvation (√y-š-ʿ, vocative -ē)

Commentary

KE Zb 4, a lamp from Kea: a one-word dedication. √y-š-ʿ ‘save’, as in JA-SI (‘Salvation’, KN Zb 4) and PE Zc 4 (‘he saves’): one root at three sites. Š is written S and the final ʿ is unwritten. The vocative JA- is JA-DI-KI-TU’s (IO Za 2). Amorite ia-še-ia carries the hypocoristic -iya on the same stem (GlOS 2, 379). Weak point: the -E extension, vocative or petitionary, against bare JA-SI. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KE Zb 4Keaja-si-e