Personal name · Semitic
JA-SA-JA
personal name '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic
- Reading
- Yašʿaya
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Knossos
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- JA-SA-JA
Commentary
KN Zg 55, a steatite disk seal: face b JA-SA-JA, the whole text, in the owner’s slot. Yašʿaya ‘(DN) has helped’, hypocoristic, as Amorite Jišʿ-ija (Gelb 1980, no. 3768), ʿayin unwritten. Weak point: the root’s interdental would be written in the T series, so the spelling needs a donor form after *ṯ > š. Rival: an abbreviation of JA-SA-SA-RA (Younger). One attestation.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry JA-SA-JA.