Proto-Semitic root

*yṯʿ

‘to help, save’

di Mino’s gloss: to help, save; salvation

In Linear A3 entries

Huffmon APNM 215 sets the root as *yṯʿ. HALOT 448 compares Arabic and OSArb. wsʿ (3584 *wšʕ ‘to be ample’), whose s does not answer to *ṯ.

Eblaitic/y-ṯ-ʿ/: cf. names a-sa-ì, a-sa-ì-um, a-sa-sa-du (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 379)gloss withheld

Hebrewyšʿ (hif. hôšîaʿ) (HALOT 448)yēšaʿ (HALOT 449)yǝšûʿâ (HALOT 446)gloss withheld
Moabiteyšʿ (HALOT 449)hšʿ (T 131)gloss withheld
Amoritejšʿ: jāšuʿ, jišʿum, jūšiʿ (Gelb AS 21, 22)yašuḫ- (Huffmon APNM 215)yiṯʿu, yāṯiʿa, yâṯuʿ (Buck 2019, 335)y-ṯ-ʿ: ia-a-ši-ḫu, la-šu-il (Ur III)yaṯʿ, yaṯʿat, yiṯʿ, yiṯʿah, yiṯʿat: bu-nu-ia-aš-ḫa, ᵈUTU-ia-aš-ḫa, EŠ₄.DAR-ia-aš-ḫayataṯʿ: ia-taš-ḫa, ia-ta-aš-ḫa, ia-taš-ḫa-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 379)gloss withheld
Phoenicianyšʿ (Benz PNPPI 327)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.