# I-NA-TA-I (ʿInatī)

> my Anat—theonym plus 1cs -ī; proposed "She Who Answers" (√ʿ-n-y)

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

- Reading: ʿInatī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕanat-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2771/index.md>) 'Anat (warrior goddess)'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · NA (na) · TA (ta) · I (i)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *ʿanatu* — ʿnt /ʿanatu/ "Anat"; syllabic ᵈa-na-tu₄ = /ʿanatu/; btlt ʿnt "the young woman Anat"
- Hebrew: ʿAnāt (עֲנָת) in Shamgar ben Anath (Judg 3:31); Beth-Anath (Josh 19:38); Anathoth (Jer 1:1)
- Akkadian: *Antu* — Antu "Anu's consort" (CAD A2, 148)
- Egyptian: *ꜥntjt* — ꜥntjt "Anat" (NK warrior goddess, adopted from Canaan)
- Amorite (Mari): Ḫanat (cult goddess at Mari, early 2nd millennium, with initial ḫ- instead of ʿ-)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa6/index.md>): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — my Anat—She Who Answers

## Commentary

IO Za 6, position 2. The vessel is chipped, but the complete group I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA has no internal lacuna. Segmented I-NA-TA-I + ZU-DI + SI-KA, 'my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink.' Initial I carries the laryngeal ʿ, not a separate particle: Ugaritic has three vowel-conditioned aleph signs (Huehnergard 2012, 21), and syllabic Ugaritic writes ᵈa-na-tu₄ for /ʿanatu/ and ša-i for /šāʿi/ (Huehnergard 2008, 18 n. 78, 208, 249). Final I is the 1cs suffix -ī. IO Za 8 ]A-NA-TI-*301-WA-JA[ is broken at both edges. See TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU, DA-RU-NE-TE, KA-KU-NE-TE.

## Same root

- [DA-RU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-RU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Dāru-ʿAnēt)
- [KA-KU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-KU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Kakku-ʿAnēt)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Huehnergard, John (2008), Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 32, Eisenbrauns
- CAD A/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1968), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/2. 

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