# A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E (ʾatainawē)

> I make myself a dwelling (Palaikastro dialect variant, 1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive of √NWY)

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

- Reading: ʾatainawē
- Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal.
- Root: [\*nwy](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3654/index.md>) 'pasture land, grazing place' 1, 'abode, settlement' 2, 'to betake oneself to an abode' 3
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · TA (ta) · I (i) · \*301 · WA (wa) · E (e)
- Rank: #13 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: נָוֶה *nāweh* — nāweh (נָוֶה) 'comely habitation, pasture' (Exod 15:13, Ps 23:2 [nĕʾōt, pl. construct], Isa 33:20, Jer 25:30); nāʾwāh (נָאוָה) 'comely' (Song 1:5); √n-w-y 'to dwell, settle'
- Amorite: *nawûm* — nawûm 'steppe; encampment (man and beast)' (Huffmon, APNM 237); nawijum 'nomadic encampment' (Gelb, AS 21)
- Akkadian: *namû* — namû A (nawû) 'pasture land … and its population and flocks; outlying area around a city' (CAD N/1, 249–51)
- Arabic: نوى *nawā* — nawā (نوى) 'to intend, set out for'; nawan, an-nawā (النَّوَى) 'the abode, the place one sets out for'
- Greek: ναός *naos* — ναός (naos) 'temple' < *nawos, same √n-w-y (Bernal 1987, Rendsburg 1989); cf. Exod 15:13 nəwēh qodšekhā 'Thy holy shrine'

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E A-DI-KI-TE-TE-\[?\] — I make myself a dwelling

## Commentary

PK Za 11: the Palaikastro spelling of A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, whose reading and cognates it shares. -WA-E for -WA-JA writes ay as ē, as the Palaikastro scribes do.

## Same root

- [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/index.md>) (ʾatainawaya)
- [\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*301/index.md>) (nawā)
- [I-NA-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-WA/index.md>) (ʾi-nawā)
- [NU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-WI/index.md>) (nōwē)

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966; di Mino
- Rendsburg, Gary A. (1989), Black Athena: An Etymological Response. Arethusa,22,67–82
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Bernal, Martin (1987), Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785–1985. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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