# I-NA (hinna)

> behold! (presentative particle)

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

- Reading: hinna
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*hn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3482/index.md>) 'behold; here' 1, 'this' 2
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: הִנֵּה *hinnēh* — hinnēh (הִנֵּה) 'behold' (HALOT 252); hēn (הֵן) 'behold' (HALOT 251)
- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎐 *hn* — hn 'behold!' (DULAT 337)
- Eblaite: i-na, in-na, en-ma 'behold' (GlOS 1, 218)
- Arabic: إنّ *ʾinna* — ʾinna (إنّ) 'look' (HALOT 251)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): I-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-RU-\[?\] I-NA-JA-PA-QA
- [AP Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/APZa2/index.md>): \]PI-MI-NA-TE I-NA-JA-RE-TA\[ \]QA

## Commentary

PK Za 11 I-NA-JA-PA-QA, the close of the prayer, and AP Za 2 I-NA-JA-RE-TA[: hinna 'behold!', the bare counterpart of U-NA u=hinna, written as one word with what it presents. Heb. hēn, hinnē 'behold' (HALOT 251–252), Ug. hn 'behold!; here' (DULAT 337). Rival: Akk. ina 'in, when', in suitable contexts. Two attestations. See I-NA-JA-PA-QA and I-NA-JA-RE-TA.

## Same root

- [U-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA/index.md>) (wannā)
- [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (hinna yapqaḥ)
- [U-NA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-A/index.md>) (wannā(h) / winnā(h))

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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