SI-JA-SE

which goes out (disbursement marker)—relative particle šī + 3ms imperfect √y-ṣ-ʾ "to go out"

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Reading
šī-yāṣē
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ša ‘who, which, that (determinative-relative…)’ + *wVṣ̂Vʾ- ‘leave’ 1, ‘exit, issue’ 2
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewאֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵאʾašer-yēṣēאֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא ʾašer-yēṣē "that which goes out" (2 Kgs 12:13, Temple expenditure)
  • Akkadianṣītuṣītu "expenditure, disbursement"; wāṣītu "outgoing goods" (OB/MB palace archives)
  • Ugaritic√yṣʾ√yṣʾ "to go out, appear"
  • Phoenicianš- relative particle (< PS *ḏū)—diagnostic Canaanite feature

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT Zb 159A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE[adjectival formation (vessel label): 'of ʿAnānu, ʿAnānu's-ware'; alt. šī-yāṣē 'which goes out'
  2. PE Zb 3A-KA-RA-KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE-VIR+[?]-ZAadjectival formation (vessel label): 'of linen, linen-ware'; alt. šī-yāṣē 'which goes out'

Commentary

A suffix on pithos labels: A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE (HT Zb 159), KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE (PE Zb 3). Two morphemes, a relative clause: šī, the Phoenician-type relative (cf. MLK Š-PʿL), with yāṣē, the 3ms imperfect of √y-ṣ-ʾ with the third aleph lost (*yiṣʾaʾu > yāṣē), marking goods as issued. Hebrew Temple accounts use the same construction, אשר-יצא (2 Kgs 12:13), relative with imperfect √y-ṣ-ʾ, for expenditure, and Akkadian ṣītu is the term for disbursements against ēribu ‘income’. With SI the relative š(ī), Minoan sides with Canaanite š- against Ugaritic and Aramaic d-. Bare yāṣē stands in JA-PA-RA-JA-SE yapʾara yāṣē (SY Za 9, a Syme libation vessel), the libation as ‘that which goes out’; see JA-SE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon