# QA-\*118-SA (qaṭʿ-ša) > its portion (a measured share); rival qadaša 'holy portion' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: qaṭʿ-ša - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*qVṭVʿ-]() 'cut', 'finish, be finished', 'be spent' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: QA (qa) · \*118 · SA (sa) ## Compared forms - Arabic: *qaṭīʿa* — qaṭīʿa 'portion (of land) held in fee', VIII 'took a portion' (Lane 2990) - Aramaic: *qṭʿ* — qṭʿ 'cut' ## Attestations - [HT 70](): \]QA-\*118-SA 2 ¹⁄₄\[ — its portion; rival qadaša 'holy portion' (needs *118 = d) ## Commentary HT 70 .2 ]QA-*118-SA 2¼, broken before QA, part of *118 dotted (GORILA I 123), after NI · TE 30 and before I 3. With *118 = ṭa there is no q-ṭ-s root; QA-*118 (KH 10) with the suffix -ša 'its, her' gives qaṭʿ-ša 'its portion' (Lane 2990), a pre-*s > *h suffix. Rival: qōdeš 'holy portion' (HALOT 1076), which needs plain d, a value only possible for *118. A lost sign before QA would change the word. One witness. ## Same root - [I-QA-\*118]() (iqṭaʿ) ## References - Reading: di Mino - 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 - Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London - GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-*118-SA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.