# WI-SA-SA-NE (Wiššān)

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

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

- Reading: Wiššān
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*wVšVn- 1 ~ \*ši/un(-at)- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1167/index.md>) 'to sleep' 1, 'sleep, dream' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: WI (wi) · SA (sa) · SA (sa) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: yšn PN, ia-ši-nu, KTU 4.98, 4.103, 4.425, 4.753 (DULAT 973)
- Hebrew: Yāšēn, 2 Sam 23:32, 'sleepy' (HALOT 448)
- Arabic: *wasina* — wasina 'to be sleepy' (HALOT 447; DULAT 973)
- Safaitic: *wsn* — wsn 'to sleep' (Al-Jallad 2026, 169)
- Linear B: ja-sa-no, KN As 1516.4, which West compares with Ugaritic yšn (DULAT 973)

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): WI-SA-SA-NE CYP+E 2 — Wiššān, '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.

## In the onomasticon

- [WI-SA-SA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/WI-SA-SA-NE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; HALOT
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.
- Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2026), Dictionary of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia, Volume I: Safaitic. Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA)

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