Personal name · Aegean substrate

WI-SA

Wisa (personal name)

Reading
Wisa
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Aegean substrate Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
WI-SA

Commentary

HT 113 .2 WI-SA ·, a recipient entry (GORILA I 184–185). Linear B wi-so, a woman’s name at Knossos, KN Ap 639.4, and wi-sa[, PY Cn 328.12 (DMic II 436); language unknown. Cf. Safaitic WS (Harding 1971, 641). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry WI-SA.

  • Linear Bwi-so, a woman’s name at Knossos, KN Ap 639.4 wi-so MUL 1, in a catalogue of women; wi-sa[, the start of a man’s name, PY Cn 328.12, cf. wi-sa-to (DMic II 436)
Linear A Lexicon