# KO-SA-I-TI (Kōšayīt)

> the Kushite woman (origin label); rival kusītu 'robe'

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

- Reading: Kōšayīt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Kꜣš 'Kush' (AED lemma 163680, after Wb 5, 109.1) + -ay- + -īt (feminine nisbe)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KO (ko) · SA (sa) · I (i) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: *Kꜣš* — Kꜣš 'Kush' (AED lemma 163680); ı͗kšj.t 'Kushite woman'; Coptic ⲉϭⲱϣ, ⲉϭⲟϣⲉ 'Kushite' (ThotBank 486)
- Amarna: *KUR ka-ši* — KUR ka-ši 'Kush' (EA 127, 131, 133, 287); LÚ.MEŠ ka-ši-yi 'Kushites' (EA 287:33)
- Hebrew: *hāʾiššâ hakkušît* — hāʾiššâ hakkušît 'the Kushite woman' (Num 12:1)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): KO-SA-I-TI 1 — the Kushite woman (origin label); rival kusītu 'robe'

## Commentary

HT 117a .7–8 KO-SA-I-TI 1, complete, I dotted, the second of five under SA-TA Šata, between KU-KU-DA-RA and DA-MI-NU (GORILA I 197). KO writes the ō of Coptic ⲉϭⲱϣ 'Nubian', feminine ⲉϭⲟⲟϣⲉ (Vycichl 1983, 50, apud Kilani 2020), SA-I the gentilic glide of Amarna LÚ.MEŠ ka-ši-yi (EA 287:33), I-TI the feminine nisbe -īt: Kōšayīt 'the Kushite woman', an origin label as U-SU ʾUšu and U-DI-MI ʾUdmī on the same tablet. Rival: kusītu 'robe' (Ebla gu-zi-tum, Amarna ku-zi-ti, Ug. kst; GlOS 1, 325), a garment in a roster of persons, where KU-SI-TI is the expected spelling. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [KO-SA-I-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KO-SA-I-TI/index.md>): Place or gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Kilani 2020; GlOS 1; AED
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Kilani, Marwan (2020), Madùwwe Project - ThotBank dataset. GitHub
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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