# WI-SA-SA-NE (Wiššān)

> Sleepy (personal name); rival √y-š-š 'aged'

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

- Reading: Wiššān
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Khania
- Lexicon: [WI-SA-SA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-SA-SA-NE/index.md>)

## Commentary

√w-š-n 'to sleep'; the Ugarit name yšn, ia-ši-nu (DULAT 973), Hebrew Yāšēn (HALOT 448). Rival: √y-š-š 'aged'.

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>)

## References

- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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