# A-MA-JA (ʿAmmaya)

> (Little) kinsman (personal name, hypocoristic); rival ʾAmaya 'maidservant'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʿAmmaya
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Khania
- Lexicon: [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

KH 14 .1 ]RA · A-MA-JA · CYP 6[, whole between dividers (GORILA III 45). A-MA ʿamma 'kinsman' + -ya: the Ugaritic name ʿmy ʿAmmaya (KTU 4.16:4), syllabic am-ma-ya (DULAT 164). Rival: ʾAmaya 'maidservant'.

## Attestations

- [KH 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH14/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- 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

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