# \*ša 'who, which, that (determinative-relative pronoun)'

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

- Author's gloss: who, which, that
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%A1/3139_who_which_that_determinative_relative_pronoun.md

## In Linear A

- [SI-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-JA-SE/index.md>) (šī-yāṣē): which goes out (disbursement marker)—relative particle šī + 3ms imperfect √y-ṣ-ʾ "to go out"

## Notes

Originally a determinative pronoun, weakened to a relative in Phoenician and Hebrew (HALOT 1365). Ugaritic š only in the personal name šbʿl 'the one of Baal'; the Ugaritic relative is d/dt (HALOT 1365; K0877). Tomback (T 34) compares Amm. ʾš.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: ša, šu (HALOT 1365; AHw 1118)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: šě- (HALOT 1365) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: ʾš, š (HALOT 1365); šl- (Krahmalkov 461) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: ʾš, š (HALOT 1365); ʾ, ʿš (T 34–35)
- Aramaic: EmpArm. š (HALOT 1365)

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