# \*yVpVʕ- 'shine' 1, 'go up, rise' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to shine forth; to rise, go up
- SED semet 787
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/y/782_shine_1_go_up_rise_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-WA-PI/index.md>) (ʾawpiʿ): personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')
- [JA-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA/index.md>) (Yapaʿ(u)): personal name ("he shines"—Amarna Yapaḫu)
- [JA-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WA-PI/index.md>) (Yawpiʿ): Yawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name)

## Notes

HALOT 424 compares Akk. (w)apû 'to be visible', šūpû 'to make visible' with Heb. ypʿ (hif.) 'to shine forth'. Akk. wapû: K0432. Huffmon APNM 212 separates *wpʿ 'be brilliant' (Heb. hōpīaʿ, Akk. wapû) from *ypʿ 'raise up; avail' (OSA, Arab., Ugar.), "due to the disagreement between *w and *y".

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: ypʕ: yāpaʿ hif. 1 (HALOT 424) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: ypʿ 2 (CUC; DULAT 958); Ia-pa-milku /Yapaʿ-milku/ 1 (OLA80 §45.8) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: jpʿ: ja(j)paʿ, jāpaʿ, japaʿ, jāpiʿ (Gelb AS 21, 22); yipʿa, yapaʿ, yâpuʿ (Buck 2019, 334); y-p-ʿ 1: ia-a-pa-aḫ, ia-pa-ḫu-um, ià-pá-um (Ur III) (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 374) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: yafaʿa 'to go up (a mountain)' 2; yafaʿ 'hill'; yāfiʿāt 'high places, heights' (BK 2 1631); yāfiʿ 'a boy grown up, grown tall' (Lane 3063)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab yfʿ 2 (Biella 233); yfʿ 2 (SD 168); yfʿ 2 (Sabaweb lemma 1506) (gloss withheld)

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