# KA-NA-NI-TI (kanaʿanītī)

> the Canaanite (ethnonymic designation)

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

- Reading: kanaʿanītī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kinaʕn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3786/index.md>) 'Canaan' 1, 'Canaanite' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · NA (na) · NI (ni) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *kənaʿănî* — kənaʿănî 'Canaanite' (HALOT 485)
- Ugaritic: *knʕny* — knʕny GN 'Canaanite'; Mari LÚ Ki-na-aḫ-num, Alalakh LÚ URU Ki-in-a-nim (AT 48:5) (DULAT 444)
- Punic: chanani, the people's name for themselves, and knʿny (Krahmalkov 236)

## Attestations

- [KH Wc 2005](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KHWc2005/index.md>): KA-NA-NI-TI — the 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-NA-NI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-NA-NI-TI/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Krahmalkov 2000
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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

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