# MI-ZA-SE (mizza-se)

> for the corvée gang (terminative -SE); the corvée word of MA-ZA / ME-ZA

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

- Reading: mizza-se
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mass-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S31/index.md>) 'forced labor, corvée levy, labor gang'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · ZA (za) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- : see ME-ZA

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): MI-ZA-SE 3

## Commentary

ZA 15a .4 MI-ZA-SE 3, first entry under ME+VIN in a wine issue, beside *363-KE-MA-SE Šakma-se (GORILA III 183). The corvée word of MA-ZA mazza (ZA 10b) and ME-ZA massu (HT 10a, HT 85b), MI for ma is a vowel mismatch only. -SE the terminative 'to, for': Akkadian -iš = ana + genitive (Huehnergard 2011, 311). Rival gloss '(men) of the corvée', -SE as the Luwian possessive -ass(a/i)- (Yakubovich 2015, 13); rival name the Edomite Mizzâ (Gen 36:13).

## Same root

- [ME-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ME-ZA/index.md>) (massu)
- [MA-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-ZA/index.md>) (mazza)

## In the onomasticon

- [MI-ZA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MI-ZA-SE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2011
- Huehnergard, John (2011), A Grammar of Akkadian. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN (Harvard Semitic Studies 45); Third Edition
- Yakubovich, Ilya (2015), The Luwian Language. 
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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