# TA-SA-ZA (taḫsaz) > she remembers A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: taḫsaz - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ḫss]() 'to think of, remember' - Kind: Verbal - Language: Semitic - Signs: TA (ta) · SA (sa) · ZA (za) ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: *ḫ-s-s* — /ḫ-s-s/ 'to remember', G prefix tḫss: w tḫss aṯrt ndrh 'and Athirat remembered his vow'; ḫss, Ḫasis, second name of the craftsman god Kothar (DULAT 405) - Akkadian: *ḫasāsu* — ḫasāsu 'to think of' (CAD Ḫ 122ff., apud DULAT 405) - Eblaite: ḫasīsu written ḫa-zi-zu-um, ḫa-zi-zú (VE 389, apud DULAT 405) ## Attestations - [KN Zf 31](): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — she remembers: 3fs prefix of √ḫ-s-s 'to remember', the Ugaritic prefix form tḫss (DULAT 405), ḫ unwritten as a syllable coda ## Commentary KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, second line, between TI-DI-TE-QA-TI 'fix it, you have fastened it' and TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE 'with which one curls (the hair)', intact and undotted (GORILA IV 155). ta-, 3fs prefix, of √ḫ-s-s 'to remember', the Ugaritic prefix form tḫss (DULAT 405). ḫ closes the first syllable and is unwritten, as the ʿ of teqaʿti. ZA writes the root's second s as z, as Ebla writes ḫasīsu ḫa-zi-zu-um (VE 389). No final -ī, so 3fs, or 2ms 'you remember'. The root gives Ḫasis, the second name of Kothar. Rival: tašʿazz 'you make (it) firm', Š of √ʿ-z-z (DULAT 194), which needs SA as ša and a Š stem Ugaritic does not attest. One attestation. See TI-DI-TE-QA-TI and TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE. ## References - Reading: di Mino; DULAT - VE: Pettinato, Giovanni (1982), Testi lessicali bilingui della biblioteca L. 2769. Parte 1: Traslitterazione dei testi e ricostruzione del VE. Materiali epigrafici di Ebla 4,Istituto Universitario Orientale - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - CAD Ḫ: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1956), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 6, Ḫ. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-SA-ZA/ 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.