# JA-WI (Yawī)

> personal name, '(he) lives', the bare form of the Amorite Yawi-DN names

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

- Reading: Yawī
- 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-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WI/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/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
- 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
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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