# A-NA-NU (Ḥanānu)

> personal name Ḥanānu 'gracious'; rival ʿAnānu 'cloud'

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

- Reading: Ḥanānu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḥanan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0736/index.md>) 'show favour, be gracious'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · NA (na) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- : Amorite A-NA-NU-UM-DINGIR, read ḤANAN-UM+ʾIL (Gelb 1980, Add. 476a), and Ḥanan-a, Ḥanan-at-um, Ḥanan-im (Gelb, AS 21, nos. 475–478); Ugarit Ḫananu (Kinlaw 1967, 55); biblical PN חָנָן (Ḥānān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 335); rival: Hebrew עָנָן (ʿānān) 'cloud', biblical PN עָנָן (ʿĀnān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 858)

## Attestations

- [HT Zb 159](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb159/index.md>): A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE\[ — personal name ʿAnānu (√ʿ-n-n)

## Commentary

Owner/recipient name on a painted pithos, base of A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE (HT Zb 159). -SI-JA-SE is the vessel-label adjectival formation shared with KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE (PE Zb 3). Gelb 1980 reads the same spelling, A-NA-NU-UM-DINGIR, as ḤANAN-UM+ʾIL (Add. 476a), beside the Amorite Ḥanan- names (nos. 475–478); Ugarit has Ḫananu, Kinlaw's spelling (Kinlaw 1967, 55). Cuneiform does not tell ḥ from ʿ. Rival: ʿAnānu 'cloud', and Neh 10:27 names ʿĀnān beside Ḥānān. See A-NA-NE.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

- [A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Kinlaw 1967
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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