# JA-WA-PI (Yawpiʿ) > Yawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Yawpiʿ - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*yVpVʕ-]() 'shine' 1, 'go up, rise' 2 - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: JA (ja) · WA (wa) · PI (pi) ## 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) - Hebrew: *hôpîaʿ* — hôpîaʿ 'he shone forth' (Deut 33:2); PN Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3; 2 Sam 5:15) - Ugaritic: PN ypʿ, Yapaʿu (Kinlaw 1967, 131) ## Attestations - [PE Zb 7](): JA-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. ## Same root - [A-WA-PI]() (ʾawpiʿ) - [JA-PA]() (Yapaʿ(u)) ## In the onomasticon - [JA-WA-PI](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Huffmon 1965; Gelb 1980; Kinlaw 1967 - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore - Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation) --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WA-PI/ 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.