# KU-NI-TE (kuhnēt)

> priestess (fem. singular)

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

- Reading: kuhnēt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kVhVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2381/index.md>) 'act as a priest' 1, 'to have second sight, prophecy' 2, 'priest' 3
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · NI (ni) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Phoenician: *Punic khnt* — Punic khnt 'priestess' (Krahmalkov)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎅𐎐 *khn* — khn 'priest' (CUC)

## Attestations

- [KH 92](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH92/index.md>): A-DA-\*21F-RI KU-NI-TE 10\[

## Commentary

KH 92 .1 A-DA-QIf-RI · KU-NI-TE 10[ (Younger, Linear A Texts): a counted entry, with ]NA-KI 1 on .2. kuhnēt 'priestess': Punic khnt 'priestess' (Krahmalkov 2000, 224), Ug. khn 'priest' (DULAT 428). KU writes the ū of Punic kūhen (KAI 159.6/7; Krahmalkov 2000, 419). Of the √k-h-n group with KI-NI-MA. One attestation. See A-KO-A-NE.

## Same root

- [A-KO-A-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KO-A-NE/index.md>) (ha-kōhan)
- [KI-NI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-NI-MA/index.md>) (kihinīma)

## In the onomasticon

- [KU-NI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KU-NI-TE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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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