# MI-KI-SE-NA (miksēna)

> coverings, blankets

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

- Reading: miksēna
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kVsVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0104/index.md>) 'cover'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · KI (ki) · SE (se) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *miksê* — miksê "covering" (Gen 8:13; Exod 26:14)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎒 *mks* — mks "blanket" (DULAT 538)
- Phoenician: *MKS* — MKS "covering"; MKST "covering, lid" (Krahmalkov 2000)

## Attestations

- [HT 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26a/index.md>): MI-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.

## Same root

- [JA-KI-SI-KI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-KI-SI-KI-NU/index.md>) (yaksīkin)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- 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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