# VIN

> wayn 'wine'

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*wayn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0457/index.md>) 'wine', 'grapes'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: VIN
- Rank: #44 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎐 *yn* — yn 'wine' (DULAT 954)
- Hebrew: *yayin* — yayin 'wine' (HALOT 409)
- Phoenician: 𐤉𐤍 *yn* — yn 'wine' (Krahmalkov 211)
- Arabic: *wayn* — wayn 'grapes, vine' (HALOT 409)

## Attestations

- [HT 27b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT27b/index.md>): \]VIN GRA SA 1 — wine
- [HT 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT14/index.md>): PU-VIN TE GRA 30
- [HT 99a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99a/index.md>): VIN 1 A706 (≈ ¹⁄₆?) — wine; 1 + A706 (conventionally ≈⅙?)
- [ZA 15b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15b/index.md>): KA-DI VIN 3
- [ZA 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA6b/index.md>): VIN+RA 40
- [KH 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH11/index.md>): VIN ≈ ¹⁄₆
- [PH 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH9b/index.md>): \*412-VS-VIN 1 𐝆𐝆
- [KH 103](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH103/index.md>): A548-A615-A303-AB131/VINA
- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/index.md>): VIN 6

## Commentary

A commodity logogram, wine: 52 standalone at 10 sites, the widest distribution of any commodity. On HT 89 it follows KU-RO in a separate commodity section, the numeral 6 damaged. wayn 'wine': Heb. yayin, Ug. yn, Gk. οἶνος < *woinos. VIN+WA (twice, HT 27b) takes WA as the complement for the wa- of *wayn-; Canaanite is y-initial (Ug. yn; Amarna ye-ni, EA 84:44; Aphek ye-nu; GlOS 2, 366), so the complement writes the form before the shift. VIN, GRA and SA on HT 27b make the set of wine, grain and beer. Gordon's ya-ne 'wine' (1966, §123) is KN Zb 4, whose corrected reading is JA-SI (see JA-SI). Geʿez wayn 'wine; vine, grapes' and Sabaic wyn 'vineyard' keep the w-. Weak point: in Linear A the *wayn- etymology rests on the VIN+WA complement alone, the commodity function on everything else. See JI-NU-MA-RE.

## Same root

- [JI-NU-MA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JI-NU-MA-RE/index.md>) (yinumare)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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