# SI-JA-SE (šī-yāṣē)

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

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

- Reading: šī-yāṣē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ša](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3139/index.md>) 'who, which, that (determinative-relative pronoun)' + [\*wVṣ̂Vʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0448/index.md>) 'leave' 1, 'exit, issue' 2
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · JA (ja) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא *ʾašer-yēṣē* — אֲשֶׁר־יֵצֵא ʾašer-yēṣē "that which goes out" (2 Kgs 12:13, Temple expenditure)
- Akkadian: *ṣītu* — ṣītu "expenditure, disbursement"; wāṣītu "outgoing goods" (OB/MB palace archives)
- Ugaritic: *√yṣʾ* — √yṣʾ "to go out, appear"
- Phoenician: š- relative particle (< PS *ḏū)—diagnostic Canaanite feature

## Attestations

- [HT Zb 159](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb159/index.md>): A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE\[ — adjectival formation (vessel label): 'of ʿAnānu, ʿAnānu's-ware'; alt. šī-yāṣē 'which goes out'
- [PE Zb 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PEZb3/index.md>): A-KA-RA-KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE-VIR+\[?\]-ZA — adjectival 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.

## Same root

- [SE-TO-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-TO-I-JA/index.md>) (Ṣētiya)
- [SI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-TE/index.md>) (Ṣīt)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [JA-PA-RA-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-RA-JA-SE/index.md>) (yapʾara yāṣē)
- [JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SE/index.md>) (yāṣē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino

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