MI-KI-SE-NA

coverings, blankets

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Reading
miksēna
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kVsVy- ‘cover’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewmiksêmiksê "covering" (Gen 8:13; Exod 26:14)
  • Ugaritic𐎎𐎋𐎒mksmks "blanket" (DULAT 538)
  • PhoenicianMKSMKS "covering"; MKST "covering, lid" (Krahmalkov 2000)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 26aMI-KI-SE-NA 15

Commentary

HT 26a: MI-KI-SE-NA 15 under the *406VAS+KE heading, after *312-TE-TE and TA-TI 21. miksēna ‘coverings’, the miqtal of √k-s-y ‘cover’: *miksay- > miksē, Heb. miksê ‘cover, covering’, Ug. mks (HALOT 581); SE a sounded ē, -NA the plural *-īna. KI echoes the preceding i. One attestation. See JA-KI-SI-KI-NU.

Rival readings

  • miks-levy, tax on produce (√m-k-s): Akk. miksu, makāsu (also at Ugarit), mākisu ‘tax-collector’; Heb. mekes (Num 31:28); Phoen. MKS ‘customs official’. Fits the ledger slot, not the e-vowel.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon