# WI-SA (Wisa)

> Wisa (personal name)

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

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

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 113](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT113/index.md>)

## References

- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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