# NA-SI (nasīʾ)

> chief, prince (nasīʾ), broken before NA

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

- Reading: nasīʾ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nśʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S38/index.md>) 'to lift, carry, bear' 1, 'chief, prince (one lifted up)' 2, 'to take away, forgive' 3
- Kind: Unknown
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: NA (na) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: nšỉ, KTU 2.82:16, uncertain context, compared with Hebrew nāśîʾ (DULAT 639, s.v. /n-š-ʔ/, after Pardee)
- Hebrew: נָשִׂיא *nāśīʾ* — nāśīʾ (נָשִׂיא) 'prince, chief, tribal leader' (HALOT 727–28); Num 1:16, Ezek 44:3; Deir Alla nsʾ 'leader' (ibid.)
- Akkadian: *našû* — našû 'to lift, carry, raise' (CAD N1 91)
- Arabic: *nasīʾ* — nasīʾ 'deferred one, chief' (Lane 2798)

## Attestations

- [AP Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/APZa2/index.md>): \]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.

## Same root

- [DA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-NA-SI/index.md>) (Ḏā-Naśiʾ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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