# A-WA-PI (ʾAwpiʿ)

> personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')

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

- Reading: ʾAwpiʿ
- 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: Knossos
- Lexicon: [A-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-WA-PI/index.md>)

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin, among the man's names in the first line. A verb as a name, as Amorite Ya-a-pa-aḫ (*wpʿ 'be brilliant', Huffmon 1965, 212) and Ugaritic ypʿ (DULAT 958).

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>)

## References

- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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

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