NA-SI

chief, prince (nasīʾ), broken before NA

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Reading: nasīʾ
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *nśʾ- ‘to lift, carry, bear’ 1, ‘chief, prince (one…)’
Kind: Unknown
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticnšỉ, KTU 2.82:16, uncertain context, compared with Hebrew nāśîʾ (DULAT 639, s.v. /n-š-ʔ/, after Pardee)
Hebrewנָשִׂיאnāśīʾnāśīʾ (נָשִׂיא) ‘prince, chief, tribal leader’ (HALOT 727–28); Num 1:16, Ezek 44:3; Deir Alla nsʾ ‘leader’ (ibid.)
Akkadiannašûnašû ‘to lift, carry, raise’ (CAD N1 91)
Arabicnasīʾnasīʾ ‘deferred one, chief’ (Lane 2798)

Attestations1 cited

AP Za 2 3D]NA-SI I-PI-NA-MA[ ]-KU-PA₃-NA-TU-NA-TE-[[damaged; possible 'chief/prince']

Commentary

AP Za 2 line 1 begins at a broken edge with ]NA-SI, a divider after SI. nasīʾ ‘chief, prince’, Heb. nāśîʾ. Weak point: the start is broken, so the word can be longer, and its place in the line is unknown. E-NA-SI on KH 7a is a distinct form. One attestation. See DA-NA-SI and U-MI-NA-SI.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).