JE-TA-NA
He gave (PN, qatal 3ms of √y-t-n 'to give')—straight theophoric truncation: Yatana-DN 'DN-gave,' same root as Hebrew Nāṯān, Ugaritic Yattin-Haddu, Amorite Yantin-Dagan, Yattin-Dagan (Gelb 1980, nos. 2986, 3555)
- Reading
- Yatana
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *ytn ~ *ntn ‘give’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #74 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Ugariticy-t-nytn (II) PN, syllabic ia-ta-nu, PRU 3 94 (RS 16.245):4 (DULAT 977); /y-t-n/ ‘to give, grant’ (DULAT 974); Yatanu, Milki-Yatanu in the Akkadian texts of Ugarit (Kinlaw 1967, 135, 81)
- Phoenician𐤉𐤕𐤍ytnytn PN ‘gave’, Ia-a-tu-na; YTNʾL Ia-ta-na-e-li ‘God gave’ (Krahmalkov 220)
- AmoriteNTN ‘give’: jantin, natūnum (Gelb AS 21, 27)
Attestations1 cited
- HT Wa 1020JE-TA-NA
Commentary
HT Wa 1020, its only attestation; HT 88 has none. Yatana ‘he gave’, the G 3ms perfect of √y-t-n in a name or title slot, a theophoric name element, Yatana-DN. Ugaritic keeps ytn where Hebrew has n-t-n: G /yatana/, prefix /yittinu/ with the n assimilated (Huehnergard 2012), BH nātan. The masculine of A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat, the feminine of the root with I-y > ʾ. Ugarit writes the same name ia-ta-nu and ia-te-nu (DULAT 977; Kinlaw 1967, 135), E for a within it. Weak point: there the e falls on the second syllable; every held form has ya in the first.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.