# A-KO-A-NE (ha-kōhan)

> the priest (proposed title after PI-TE-RI)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ha-kōhan
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kVhVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2381/index.md>) 'act as a priest' 1, 'to have second sight, prophecy' 2, 'priest' 3
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · KO (ko) · A (a) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *kāhinu* — khn /kāhinu/ 'priest'; plural /kāhinūma/
- Hebrew: כֹּהֵן kōhēn; הַכֹּהֵן ha-kōhēn 'the priest'
- Phoenician: 𐤊𐤄𐤍 *khn* — khn 'priest'
- Arabic: كاهن *kāhin* — كاهن kāhin 'soothsayer, diviner'

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): \[?\]-RE PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE A — the priest (proposed title)

## Commentary

PK Za 11 .2 […]-RE · PI-TE-RI · A-KO-A-NE ·, the one witness; damaged A-[…]-NE stands in the same slot on PK Za 12. A title in apposition: PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE 'Pitrī, the priest', ha-kōhan with the Canaanite article ha-. Ug. khn 'priest' (DULAT 428), Heb. kōhēn (HALOT 461–462), Phoenician khn (Krahmalkov 2000, 224). The second A writes the a that h keeps in Heb. kōhănîm, JArm. kāhănā (HALOT 461) and Arb. kihānat 'divination' (Lane 3004). Name and title stand as in Heb. ʾahărōn ha-kkōhēn 'Aaron the priest' (Exod 31:10). Rivals: a second personal name, the second of two dedicants (Davis 2013, 42; Thomas 2020, 8, 10); Akk. and Nuzi Aḫūni 'our brother' and Arb. ʾaḫawāni 'two brothers', which fit the signs poorly. Weak point: one attestation.

## Same root

- [KI-NI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-NI-MA/index.md>) (kihinīma)
- [KU-NI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-NI-TE/index.md>) (kuhnēt)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-KO-A-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-KO-A-NE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Davis, Brent (2013), Syntax in Linear A: The Word-Order of the ‘Libation Formula’. Kadmos,52,35–52
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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