# PA₃-SI-\*47 (basīsa)

> meal worked with oil or clarified butter (commodity)

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

- Reading: basīsa
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*bss](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4411/index.md>) 'to break, crumble' 1, 'to mix (meal) with clarified butter or olive oil' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA₃ (pa₃) · SI (si) · \*47

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *basīsa* — basīsa 'sawīq [meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., mixed with clarified butter, or with olive-oil' (Lane 201)

## Attestations

- [MIL Zb 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MILZb1/index.md>): PA₃-SI-\*47

## Commentary

MIL Zb 1, a clay vessel from Miletos, the Minoan settlement on the Anatolian coast, the only word. ba-si-so, with PA₃ ba, SI si and *47 so, as in *47-KU-NA sōkina 'prefect': basīsa, the vessel's contents, Arabic basīsa 'sawīq [meal of parched barley or wheat], and flour, &c., mixed with clarified butter, or with olive-oil' (Lane 201). Weak points: the root is Arabic only, and -so writes the final a. MIL Zb 1 has no GORILA or SigLA record. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.