# MI-JA (mayya)

> water

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

- Reading: mayya
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*maʾ-/\*may-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/711/index.md>) 'water'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *mh/y* — mh/y 'water' (DULAT 529)
- Hebrew: *mayim* — mayim 'water' (HALOT 576)
- Akkadian: *mû* — mû 'water; liquid' (CAD M/2 149)
- Phoenician: 𐤌𐤌 *mm* — mm 'water' (Krahmalkov 292)

## Attestations

- [SY Za 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa5/index.md>): \]MI-JA JA-WA-PA₃\[

## Commentary

SY Za 5, a stone libation vessel from the Syme peak sanctuary: ]MI-JA · JA-WA-PA₃[ (Muhly and Olivier 2008, 209). mayya 'water', the word on a vessel for pouring: Ug. mh/y 'water' (DULAT 529), Heb. mayim (HALOT 576), Akk. mû. Weak point: the rim breaks before MI, and traces of two or three signs stand ca 10 cm to the left (Muhly and Olivier 2008, 209). One attestation. See M'-Y3 and MA-I-MI.

## Same root

- [MA-I-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-I-MI/index.md>) (mayimi)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Muhly, Polymnia; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (2008), Linear A Inscriptions from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete. Archaiologike Ephemeris,147,Archaeological Society at Athens,197–223
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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