WI-SA

Wisa (personal name)

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Reading
Wisa
Confidence
Speculative
Root
—
Kind
Personal name
Language
Aegean · Aegean substrate
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Linear Bwi-so, a woman’s name at Knossos, KN Ap 639.4 wi-so MUL 1, in a catalogue of women; wi-sa[, the start of a man’s name, PY Cn 328.12, cf. wi-sa-to (DMic II 436)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 113WI-SA

Commentary

HT 113 .2 WI-SA ·, whole, then a gap and O 2½, a recipient entry (GORILA I 184–185). Linear B writes the same spelling in wi-sa[, a man at Pylos, broken after SA (PY Cn 328.12), and wi-so, a woman at Knossos (KN Ap 639.4; DMic II 436). Cf. Safaitic WS ‘to reward’ (Harding 1971, 641). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon