KI-TA-NA

linen (material adjectival base in jar labels)

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Reading
kitāna
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kitn- ‘linen, tunic’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎚𐎐ktnktn ‘linen tunic’
  • Akkadiankitûm/kitinnûkitûm/kitinnû ‘linen’
  • Mariku-ta-na-am kutānku-ta-na-am kutān ‘a fabric’ (ARM 30 55; GlOS 1, 176)
  • EblaiteGÍD.TÚG = gu-da-núm ‘a garment’ (GlOS 1, 176)
  • Greekχιτών via LB ki-to, from Ug. ktn (Rendsburg 2026, 214); here fully vocalized

Attestations1 cited

  1. PE Zb 3A-KA-RA-KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE-VIR+[?]-ZAlinen

Commentary

PE Zb 3, a pithos label: KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE, kitāna šī-yāṣē pidr-qê ‘linen which goes out, a qê-measure of fat’. SI-JA-SE šī-yāṣē, the relative with the 3ms imperfect of √y-ṣ-ʾ ‘to go out’, marks goods for issue, as in A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE (HT Zb 159) on another stem. Linear B ki-to, χιτών, comes from the same ktn. KI-TA-NI-TE kitānit ‘linen robe, linen cloth’ (PK Zb 21) is its -t derivative.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon