# A-NA-NE (ḥanān)

> grace, favor

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

- Reading: ḥanān
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḥanan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0736/index.md>) 'show favour, be gracious'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · NA (na) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: חָנָן *ḥanān* — ḥanān (חָנָן) 'gracious'; ḥēn (חֵן) 'grace, favor'
- Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎐𐎐 *ḥnn* — ḥnn 'to be gracious' (KTU 1.16 vi 33–34)
- Arabic: *ḥanān* — ḥanān 'mercy, compassion'
- Akkadian: *unnīnu* — unnīnu 'prayer, supplication'

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc7/index.md>): JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE WI-PI-\[?\] — favor, grace

## Commentary

KN Zc 7, an inked vessel: GORILA prints JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE as one group; read JA-SA-RA · A-NA-NE. ḥanān 'grace, favour', the qatāl pattern of the geminate root, A- writing ḥa with the guttural unwritten: Amorite Ḥanana (Gelb 1980, no. 475), ḥanan 'gracious' (GlOS 1, 245). With JA-SA-RA, yašara ḥanān 'righteous is (thy) grace'. See A-NA-NU.

## Same root

- [A-NA-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-NA-NU/index.md>) (Ḥanānu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 1
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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