WI-SA-SA-NE

Sleepy (personal name); rival √y-š-š 'aged'

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Reading
Wiššān
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*wVšVn- 1 ~ *ši/un(-at)- 2 ‘to sleep’ 1, ‘sleep, dream’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugariticyšn PN, ia-ši-nu, KTU 4.98, 4.103, 4.425, 4.753 (DULAT 973)
  • HebrewYāšēn, 2 Sam 23:32, ‘sleepy’ (HALOT 448)
  • Arabicwasinawasina ‘to be sleepy’ (HALOT 447; DULAT 973)
  • Safaiticwsnwsn ‘to sleep’ (Al-Jallad 2026, 169)
  • Linear Bja-sa-no, KN As 1516.4, which West compares with Ugaritic yšn (DULAT 973)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 53DWI-SA-SA-NE CYP+E 2Wiššān, 'Sleepy' (personal name), recipient of cyperus

Commentary

KH 5 .2 WI-SA-SA-NE CYP+E 2, intact, a recipient of cyperus in the section headed A-DA-KI-SI-KA · A-RA-U-DA · (GORILA III 25). wiššān, a qittāl of √w-š-n ‘to sleep’, as SI-DA-RE Siddāri; SA-SA writes šš as in JA-SA-SA-RA-ME (di Mino, Ya Diktu). Initial w- as in Arabic and Safaitic, where Ugaritic and Hebrew have y-; cf. WI-DI-NA. The Ugarit and Hebrew names take the pattern qatil. Rival: √y-š-š ‘aged’, the name Yəšîšay (HALOT 447), with no w- in any cognate. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KH 5Khaniawi-sa-sa-ne…
Linear A Lexicon