# \*yṯʿ 'to help, save'

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

- Author's gloss: to help, save; salvation
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/y/3332_to_help_save.md

## In Linear A

- [JA-SA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-JA/index.md>) (Yašʿaya): personal name '(DN) has helped', hypocoristic
- [JA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SI/index.md>) (yašīʿ): Salvation—votive exclamation/dedication term
- [JA-SI-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SI-E/index.md>) (yašīʿ-ē): O Salvation—vocative/petitionary extension of yašīʿ

## Notes

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.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

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

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: yšʿ (hif. hôšîaʿ) (HALOT 448); yēšaʿ (HALOT 449); yǝšûʿâ (HALOT 446) (gloss withheld)
- Moabite: yšʿ (HALOT 449); hšʿ (T 131) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: jšʿ: 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-ḫa; yataṯʿ: ia-taš-ḫa, ia-ta-aš-ḫa, ia-taš-ḫa-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 379) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: yšʿ (Benz PNPPI 327) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: yṯʿ (Huffmon APNM 215; Benz PNPPI 327) (gloss withheld)

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