# JA-SI-E (yašīʿ-ē)

> O Salvation—vocative/petitionary extension of yašīʿ

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

- Reading: yašīʿ-ē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*yṯʿ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3332/index.md>) 'to help, save'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · SI (si) · E (e)

## Compared forms

- : see JA-SI

## Attestations

- [KE Zb 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KEZb4/index.md>): JA-SI-E — O 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.

## Same root

- [JA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SI/index.md>) (yašīʿ)
- [JA-SA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-JA/index.md>) (Yašʿaya)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- 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

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