- Reading
- Kīnu
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *kwn- ‘to be firm, to be established, to exist’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Eblaitegi-num kīnumgi-num kīnum ‘reliable’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 2059); names gi-na, gi-núm (GlOS 1, 332)
- Amoritekīnumkīnum ‘firm’ (Gelb 1980, glossary); names ki-nu-um-a-da-al, la-ki-nu (GlOS 1, 332)
- Akkadiankīnukīnu ‘true, reliable, just’ (CAD K 391–394); kânu ‘to be firm, true’; PN element in Nabû-kīn-apli, Marduk-kīn-šumi
- Hebrewכּוּןkūnkūn (כּוּן) ‘to be established, firm’; nākōn (נָכוֹן) ‘right, true’
- Ugaritic𐎋𐎆𐎐kwnkwn ‘to be, exist’
Attestations1 cited
- ARKH 3aKI-NU GRA 13personal name ('the Just/True One')
Commentary
ARKH 3a: KI-NU heads a commodity allocation section. Kīnu ‘the True One’, kīn- in Eblaite, Amorite and Akkadian alike, both a name element and the quality adjective ‘true, standard’: the heading admits ‘Kīnu: grain 13’ and ‘standard grade: grain 13’, as KA-NE qanē on the same tablet has two senses. A second attestation, with a quantity in a list or heading an OLE section, would decide between them. Standalone KI is an administrative sign of open value. One attestation. See OLE+KI.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.