JA-WA-PI

Yawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name)

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Reading
Yawpiʿ
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*yVpVʕ- ‘shine’ 1, ‘go up, rise’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Amorite*wpʿ*wpʿ ‘be brilliant’, kept apart from *ypʿ (Huffmon, APNM 212); MU-WPIʿ-I muwpiʿi, written mu-bi-ḫi, the causative participle (Gelb 1980, no. 4729)
  • Hebrewhôpîaʿhôpîaʿ ‘he shone forth’ (Deut 33:2); PN Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3; 2 Sam 5:15)
  • UgariticPN ypʿ, Yapaʿu (Kinlaw 1967, 131)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PE Zb 7JA-WA-PI JA-[?]

Commentary

PE Zb 7, a pithos: JA-WA-PI beside a handle, the first word, closed by a divider before JA[ (RILA-S1 112). The causative prefix form yawpiʿ of w-p-ʿ, ʿ unwritten, the w kept after the prefix as in Amorite muwpiʿi and Hebrew hôpîaʿ. Weak point: RILA-S1 reads the third sign PI, Younger VIR (Younger, Linear A Texts), and the photographs do not decide it. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon