KA-NA-TI

you (f.) gathered (2fs suffix form; after lū 'may you gather'); rival K-N-S-T feminine collective 'assembly'

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Reading
kanasti
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kanVs- ‘to gather, assemble’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewכְּנֶסֶתkənesetכְּנֶסֶת kəneset ‘assembly’ (later Hebrew); כָּנַסְתִּי qānastī ‘I gathered’ (Eccl 2:8)
  • Aramaickənaškənaš ‘to assemble’ (Dan 3:2); Syriac knuštā ‘congregation, synagogue’ (Peshitta, Acts 6:9)
  • Linear Bpa-ka-na /phasgana/ and PA-I-TO /Phaistos/ illustrate non-writing of /s/ before a stop

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK Za 113DSA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TIso, behold, may you gather!

Commentary

PK Za 11, in U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI. kanasti ‘you (f.) gathered’, the 2fs suffix form of √k-n-s, with the s unwritten before t, as Linear B omits s before a stop (pa-ka-na phasgana) and PA-I-TO writes Phaistos (Ventris and Chadwick 1956, 45, 80); after RU lū it reads ‘may you gather!’ (di Mino, Ya Diktu). Rivals: a feminine collective kanast ‘assembly’, with final I a support vowel, as later Hebrew kəneset and Aramaic and Syriac knuštā; TI as -tī, qānastī ‘I gathered’ (Eccl 2:8); √k-n-š, see U-NA-KA-NA-SI. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon