# JE-TA-NA (Yatana)

> 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)

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

- Reading: Yatana
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ytn ~ \*ntn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2608/index.md>) 'give'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JE (je) · TA (ta) · NA (na)
- Rank: #74 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *y-t-n* — ytn (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)
- Phoenician: 𐤉𐤕𐤍 *ytn* — ytn PN 'gave', Ia-a-tu-na; YTNʾL Ia-ta-na-e-li 'God gave' (Krahmalkov 220)
- Amorite: NTN 'give': jantin, natūnum (Gelb AS 21, 27)

## Attestations

- [HT Wa 1020](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1020/index.md>): JE-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.

## Same root

- [A-TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (ʾAtanat)
- [NA-TU-\*301-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NA-TU-*301-NE/index.md>) (natūnān)
- [MA-TI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-TI-TI/index.md>) (mattitt(u))
- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-nittāna)
- [A-TA-NA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-JE/index.md>) (ʾatanāya)
- [I-TI-NI-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-TI-NI-SA/index.md>) (ʾItniša)

## In the onomasticon

- [JE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JE-TA-NA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; cf. Gordon 1966
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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