# KA-NA-TI (kanasti)

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

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

- Reading: kanasti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kanVs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2763/index.md>) 'to gather, assemble'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · NA (na) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: כְּנֶסֶת *kəneset* — כְּנֶסֶת kəneset 'assembly' (later Hebrew); כָּנַסְתִּי qānastī 'I gathered' (Eccl 2:8)
- Aramaic: *kənaš* — kənaš 'to assemble' (Dan 3:2); Syriac knuštā 'congregation, synagogue' (Peshitta, Acts 6:9)
- Linear B: pa-ka-na /phasgana/ and PA-I-TO /Phaistos/ illustrate non-writing of /s/ before a stop

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI — so, 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.

## Same root

- [U-NA-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī)
- [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā lū kanāsī)
- [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI/index.md>) (wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Ventris and Chadwick 1956
- Ventris, M. & Chadwick, J. (1956), Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary. Cambridge University Press
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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