# \*yašar- 'straight'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to be straight, upright, just; uprightness
- SED semet 1532
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/y/1446_straight.md

## In Linear A

- [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (ʾaššaram): uprightly, in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-)
- [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-PA~E2~82~83-I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī): Ida, in righteousness (toponym + prepositional phrase written as one word)
- [I-MI-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-MI-SA-RA/index.md>) (Il-Mīšar): Il-Mīšar, god of justice—theophoric compound: ʾil 'god' + Mīšaru (justice god, maqtal pattern of √y-š-r). Personnel category on sanctuary allocation tablet.
- [I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾišarī): uprightness, righteousness (genitive after the b= proclitic)
- [JA-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA/index.md>) (yašar): righteous, upright (clipped form of yasaramu; may converge with \*y-s "to heal" in onomastic contexts—cf. Greek ἰάομαι, Iāsōn, no secure IE etymology)
- [JA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yašara): righteous is (predicate before A-NA-NE ḥanān 'grace')
- [JA-SA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yaššar-): line-broken first portion of JA-SA-SA-RA-ME / yaššaram 'uprightly; in righteousness'; not independently attested as a bare lemma
- [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA/index.md>) (yaššaram=na): in righteousness indeed; uprightly indeed
- [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (yaššaram): in righteousness (adverbial accusative in -am of √y-š-r; also 'righteously'); rival: substantivized "the upright/proper \[thing\]" in an object slot. Polysemic layer: masculine divine name Yasharam (Akk. Mīšarum, Phoen. Misor)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: išaru (CAD I/J 224); išariš (CAD I/J 223); ešēru (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root wšr]
- Eblaitic: i-sa-lum /yišarum/ (VE 1119, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 683 apud SEDonline 1853; Krebernik 1983, 39); uš-da-si-ir /y-S-r/; /yiSr/: in names =iš-lu, =iš-ru₁₂; /yaSar, yaSarah/: names a-sa-ar, a-sa-ra, a-sar-a-nu; /yiSar/: DN =i-sar; names i-sar-il, i-sar-ma-lik (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 377); /y-š-r/: name ti-šar, 3rd f./2nd m. (Krebernik 1988, 53–55) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: yšr (DULAT 973) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: yšr; yšr (piʿel) (Krahmalkov 218) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: yāšar
- Aramaic: yašrā
- Amorite: jśr: jīśar, jaśar, jaśarum, jiśarum; Jaśar, Jiśar DN (Gelb AS 21, 22); yašar, yatašrim, mêšarum, yîšar (Buck 2019, 334); y-S-r: ia-si-rum/ru-um, ia-šir-ti-im; yaSar, yaSarah: a-ša-ru-um, ia-sa-rum, ia-ša-ru-um; yiSar: names i-ša-rum, áš-di-e-sa-ar, da-di-e-sa-ar, i-šar-li-im (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 377) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: yšr; Neo-Punic myšr (T 131) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root wšr]

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: yasara 'to be easy' (BK 2, 1627); 'he was gentle, tractable, easy' (Lane 2975); yusr 'easiness, facility' (Lane 2977)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ysr (Al-Jallad 2026, 171) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab ysr (Biella 232, 233; Sabaweb lemmas 1616, 2567) (gloss withheld)

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