Personal name · Semitic
JA-WI
personal name, '(he) lives', the bare form of the Amorite Yawi-DN names
- Reading
- Yawī
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- JA-WI
Commentary
Reading from the lexicon (di Mino). The last word of ZA 14, against the original right edge (GORILA III 180–181). Mari Ya-wi-ya, Ya-wi-AN, Ya-wi-dIM (Huffmon 1965, 39, 70); rival √h-w-y, ia-wi-AN yahwî-ʾilu (Buck 2018, 336).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry JA-WI.
- AmoriteYa-wi-dIM, Ya-wi-AN, Ya-wi-i-la, Ya-wi-dD[a-gan], hypocoristic Ya-wi-ya (ARM VII 169.5) at Mari (Huffmon 1965, 39, 70–72)
- Amorite (rival)ia-wi-AN yahwî-ʾiluia-wi-AN yahwî-ʾilu ‘ʾIlu shall exist’, √h-w-y ‘be’ (ARM 25 48; Buck 2018, 336; Gelb 1980, no. 3591)