# WI-SA (Wisa)

> Wisa (personal name)

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

- Reading: Wisa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: WI (wi) · SA (sa)

## Compared forms

- Linear B: wi-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)

## Attestations

- [HT 113](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT113/index.md>): WI-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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DMic II; Harding 1971
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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