# JA-SA-MU (yaśmaʿū)

> 'He hears'—yaqtal hypocoristic personal name with frozen nominative -ū

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

- Reading: yaśmaʿū
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Zakros
- Lexicon: [JA-SA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-MU/index.md>)

## Commentary

√š-m-ʿ 'to hear', ʿayin unwritten: yaqtul *yašmuʿ, as in Ishmael (Yišmāʿēl), Simeon (Šimʿōn), Samuel (Šəmūʾēl), Punic ŠMʿ-BʿL, a sentence name without the deity; or the yaqtal class with frozen nominative -ū (APNM pp. 104–15), the Linear A shape of the hypocoristicon Ya-ás-ma-ḫu-u[m] (APNM p. 132). ZA 15a, a wine allocation, 5 units, beside SI-PI-KI and SA-MI-DA-E.

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/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

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