A-TA-NA-JE

My Giver / My Athena—1cs possessive on divine epithet (√y-t-n 'to give' + -ya 'my')

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Reading
ʾatanāya
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ytn ~ *ntn ‘give’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Linear Ba-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja, KN V 52.1, beside e-na-wa-ri-jo, pa-ja-wo-ne, po-se-da[-o-ne] (DMic I, s.v.)—Athena Potnia
  • GreekἈθάνα (Doric), Ἀθήνη (Ionic/Attic)—pre-Greek, no IE etymology (Beekes 2010)
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎚𐎐ytnytn ‘give’; names ytn Yatanu, mlkytn Milki-Yatanu (Kinlaw 1967, 135, 81), bʿltn (GlOS 2, 78); 1cs possessive -y: ʾaby ‘my father,’ ʾumy ‘my mother’ (Huehnergard 2012)
  • Alalakhna-di-na nādinna-di-na nādin ‘giver’, a name (GlOS 2, 78)

Attestations1 cited

  1. THE Zb 6A-TA-NA-JEMy Giver / My Athena — 1cs possessive -ya on feminine participle of √y-t-n 'to give'

Commentary

THE Zb 6, a clay vessel from Thera, its one word: A-TA-NA ʾAtanat ‘She-who-gives’, the etymon of Athena (see A-TA-NA-TE), + -ya ‘my’, the 1cs suffix of PU₂-RE-JA burē(t)yā ‘my Creatress’. The stem stands at two sites: A-TA-NA-TE (ZA 10a; ZA 9 A-TA-NA-[TE], GORILA III 166–167) and A-TA-NA-JE (Thera). At Knossos Athena heads KN V 52.1 among the gods, a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja beside Enyalios, Paiawon and Poseidon. At Ugarit the god is the one who gives, Milki-Yatanu ‘Milku has given’ (mlkytn, son of a priest of Baal; Kinlaw 1967, 81), and the verb stands alone as a name, Yatanu (ytn); Alalakh has nādin ‘giver’ as a name. √y-t-n is the Ugaritic and Phoenician form. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon