E-NA-SI
men, people (section heading); rival copper, bronze
- Reading
- ʾenāš
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *(ʾi-)nVš- ‘man’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Attestations1 cited
- KH 7aE-NA-SI VIR+*313b 10men, people (section heading); rival copper
Commentary
KH 7a (Khania, LM IB): the heading over VIR+*313b 10, men of the *313b class, who draw ½ unit of CYP+D; each of the tablet’s three sections draws CYP+D. ʾenāš ‘men, people’ (PS *(ʾi-)nVš-), E- the root’s own initial, as JArm. ʔēnāš, SI writing the final š. Rival: naḥāši ‘of copper’ (PS *nVḥVš-), the interior ḥ unwritten, as no *314 sign occurs on any KH tablet: Emar naḫšu ‘bronze(-vessel)’, Amarna nuḫuštu (GlOS 2, 87); it leaves E- unexplained, since nəḥōšet and its cognates begin with n-. Weak point: the heading names the men VIR already counts. One witness.