Place · Semitic
SE-TO-I-JA
the Eastern (place), a central Cretan toponym; rivals the epithet 'she of the East' and a pre-Greek toponym Setoiya
- Reading
- Ṣētiya
- Type
- Place Probable
- Language
- Semitic Probable
- Sites
- Prassa
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SE-TO-I-JA
Commentary
Ṣētiya ‘the Eastern (one)’, √y-ṣ-ʾ (PS *wVṣ̂Vʾ-): ṣēt ‘the East’ with the gentilic -iya; cf. SI-TE Ṣīt.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SE-TO-I-JA.
- Akkadianṣītum / ṣīt šamšim ‘sunrise, east’ (Huehnergard 1997, glossary); ṣītān ‘at sunrise’ (ORACC CAMS/GKAB); Ebla balri ṣīt šamši ‘on the east bank’ (EDA I, P0477)
- Hebrewצֵאתṣēʾtṣēʾt (צֵאת) ‘going out’, kə-ṣēʾt ha-šemeš (Judg 5:31); gentilic of ‘east’: haq-Qadmōnî (Gen 15:19), hay-yām haq-qadmônî ‘the eastern sea’ (Ezek 47:18)