# SI (šay) > tribute, gift—logographic abbreviation of šay(u); administrative category marker for goods designated as tribute/gift offerings A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: šay - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*ṯay-]() 'gift, tribute' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: SI (si) - Rank: #39 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: šay (שַׁי) tribute, gift, present. Ps 68:30—tribute brought to the Temple; Ps 76:12—tribute brought to the Awesome One; Isa 18:7—tribute brought to YHWH Ṣebaʾôt. √š-y biconsonantal root - Akkadian: šūtu / šâtu gift, present—functional parallel - Phoenician: 𐤔𐤉 *šy* — šy 'gift' (Tomback 1978, 316) ## Attestations - [HT 30](): SI 4 - [HT 106](): SI 5 ¹⁄₂ — tribute, gift (×3 — sub-quantities: 5½, 1, 3) - [HT 130](): SI 3 - [HT 154n](): SI - [HT 27b](): VIN SI — unresolved - [HT 51b](): SI\[ — unread - [GO 2r](): SI - [KH 7b](): SI 14 — logogram SI, 14 - [KH 22](): SI 4 - [KH 76](): SI 4 - [PH 3b](): SI ¹⁄₄ - [HT Wa 1175](): SI - [HT Wa 1176](): SI - [HT Wa 1177](): SI - [HT Wa 1178](): SI - [HT Wa 1179](): SI - [HT Wa 1180](): SI - [HT Wa 1181](): SI - [HT Wa 1182](): SI - [HT Wa 1183](): SI - [HT Wa 1184](): SI - [HT Wa 1185](): SI - [HT Wa 1186](): SI - [HT Wa 1187](): SI - [HT Wa 1188](): SI - [HT Wa 1189](): SI - [HT Wa 1190](): SI - [HT Wa 1191](): SI - [HT Wa 1192](): SI - [HT Wa 1193](): SI - [HT Wa 1194](): SI - [HT Wa 1195](): SI - [HT Wa 1196](): SI - [HT Wa 1197](): SI - [HT Wa 1198](): SI - [HT Wa 1199](): SI - [HT Wa 1200](): SI - [HT Wa 1201](): SI - [HT Wa 1202](): SI - [HT Wa 1203](): SI - [HT Wa 1204](): SI - [HT Wa 1205](): SI - [HT Wa 1206](): SI - [HT Wa 1207](): SI - [HT Wa 1208](): SI - [HT Wa 1209](): SI - [HT Wa 1210](): SI - [HT Wa 1211](): SI - [HT Wa 1212](): SI - [HT Wa 1213](): SI - [HT Wa 1214](): SI - [HT Wa 1215](): SI - [HT Wa 1216](): SI - [HT Wa 1217](): SI - [HT Wa 1218](): SI - [HT Wa 1219](): SI - [HT Wa 1220](): SI - [HT Wa 1221](): SI - [HT Wa 1222](): SI - [HT Wa 1223](): SI - [HT Wa 1224](): SI - [HT Wa 1225](): SI - [HT Wa 1226](): SI - [HT Wa 1227](): SI - [HT Wa 1228](): SI - [HT Wa 1229](): SI - [HT Wa 1230](): SI - [HT Wa 1231](): SI - [HT Wa 1232](): SI - [HT Wa 1233](): SI - [HT Wa 1234](): SI - [HT Wa 1235](): SI - [HT Wa 1236](): SI - [HT Wa 1237](): SI - [HT Wa 1238](): SI - [HT Wa 1239](): SI - [HT Wa 1240](): SI - [HT Wa 1241](): SI - [HT Wa 1242](): SI - [HT Wa 1243](): SI - [HT Wa 1244](): SI - [HT Wa 1245](): SI - [HT Wa 1246](): SI - [HT Wa 1247](): SI - [HT Wa 1248](): SI - [HT Wa 1249](): SI - [HT Wa 1250](): SI - [HT Wa 1251](): SI - [HT Wa 1252](): SI - [HT Wa 1253](): SI - [HT Wa 1254](): SI - [HT Wa 1255](): SI - [HT Wa 1256](): SI - [HT Wa 1257](): SI - [HT Wa 1258](): SI - [HT Wa 1259](): SI - [HT Wa 1260](): SI - [HT Wa 1261](): SI - [HT Wa 1262](): SI - [HT Wa 1263](): SI - [HT Wa 1264](): SI - [HT Wa 1265](): SI - [HT Wa 1266](): SI ## Commentary One sign in three uses, the pair of TE terûmā. In entries of the form SI · n, ten times at HT, KH, PH and GO, it marks part of a quantity as tribute: HT 106 MI-NU-TE · CYP · 6 · SI · 5½ · SI · 1 · DA · 8 · SI · 3, sub-quantities within a CYP reckoning; on HT 30, SI · 4 opens a summary of several commodities. Alone, it stamps 92 HT nodules, one of the single-sign nodule categories: *301 231, KU 152, KA 150, SI 92, RO 91, ZE 46, TE 27, I 25. In ligatures it appears as SI+SE (3 tablets), QI+SI (ZA 9), SI+ME and SI-CYP (HT 130), 'tribute-cypress', on the model of VIN+TE 'wine-offering'. Heb. šay (שַׁי) 'tribute' is brought to a temple or a divine authority at all three of its attestations (Isa 18:7; Ps 68:30; 76:12). SI šay, the owed or diplomatic gift, stands beside TE terûmā, the free donation to the sanctuary. ## References - Reading: di Mino; Tomback 1978 - Tomback: Tomback, Richard S. (1978), A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic Languages. Scholars Press (SBL Dissertation Series 32) --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI/ 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 50525edd.