KA-NA-NI-TI

the Canaanite (ethnonymic designation)

𐘾KAAB7757 entries𐘅NAAB0673 entries𐘝NIAB3029 entries𐘠TIAB3752 entries
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Reading
kanaʿanītī
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kinaʕn- ‘Canaan’ 1, ‘Canaanite’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewkənaʿănîkənaʿănî ‘Canaanite’ (HALOT 485)
  • Ugariticknʕnyknʕny GN ‘Canaanite’; Mari LÚ Ki-na-aḫ-num, Alalakh LÚ URU Ki-in-a-nim (AT 48:5) (DULAT 444)
  • Punicchanani, the people’s name for themselves, and knʿny (Krahmalkov 236)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH Wc 2005KA-NA-NI-TIthe Canaanite (gentilicium, √k-n-ʿ + nisbe -ītī)

Commentary

KH Wc 2005, a Khania roundel, the only word: an ethnic designation in a record of trade or personnel. kanaʿanītī ‘the Canaanite’: -NI-TI writes the gentilic -ītī, the nisbe of DU-RU-WI ḏu-luwwī ‘the Levite’, and the ʿ goes unwritten. Heb. kənaʿănî ‘Canaanite’ (HALOT 485), Amarna Kinaḫḫi ‘Canaan’ (EA 8:15), with the gentilic ‘Canaanite’ at EA 9:19; Punic Chanani, the people’s name for themselves (Augustine, apud Krahmalkov 2000, 236). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon