# OLE+KI (kīnu)

> genuine, standard-grade oil (kīnu)

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

- Reading: kīnu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kwn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S35/index.md>) 'to be firm, to be established, to exist'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE+KI

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kīnu* — kīnu 'true, reliable, just, honest' (CAD K 389)
- Hebrew: *kēn* — kēn 'correct, right, accurate' (HALOT 482)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎐 *kn* — kn 'fixed, immutable; complete, in order' (DULAT 443)
- Amorite: KWN 'be firm': kīnum (Gelb AS 21, 23)

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>): JE-DI OLE+KI 10
- [HT 18](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT18/index.md>): OLE+KI 2 — standard oil (logogram)
- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): OLE+KI ¹⁄₂
- [HT 42+59](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT42~2B59/index.md>): \]-TA SI+SE TE OLE+KI 8 — genuine oil (standard grade). 8 + 8 + ³⁄₄ units across three sections
- [HT 44a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT44a/index.md>): OLE+KI 3 — olive oil subtype KI
- [HT 50a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT50a/index.md>): OLE+KI ¹⁄₄
- [HT 50b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT50b/index.md>): OLE+KI
- [HT 56b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT56b/index.md>): OLE+KI 20
- [HT 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT91/index.md>): OLE+KI ≈ ¹⁄₆ — oil subtype; perhaps standard or genuine-grade oil
- [HT 101](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT101/index.md>): OLE+KI 2
- [HT 116a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT116a/index.md>): OLE+KI 1
- [HT 125a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT125a/index.md>): OLE+KI 1 ¹⁄₆ — KI-type oil; perhaps standard or genuine-grade oil(?)
- [HT 129](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT129/index.md>): OLE+KI 6 — standard oil (compound logogram)
- [HT 140](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT140/index.md>): JE-DI OLE+KI 1 ¹⁄₂
- [TY 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY3a/index.md>): \]ZA-\*321 OLE+KI 15 ¹⁄₄
- [TY 3b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY3b/index.md>): PI-KU-ZU OLE+KI 4
- [ZA 18a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA18a/index.md>): OLE+KI ?

## Commentary

OLE with the KI adjunct marks an oil subtype, 21 tokens on 17 documents at Haghia Triada, Tylissos and Zakros. kīnu 'true, standard': Akk. kīnu 'true, reliable, correct, normal, legitimate' (CAD K 389), Heb. kēn 'correct, right' (HALOT 482). Cf. KI-NU (ARKH 3a), read Kīnu, the full word or a personal name. Weak point: no Semitic text names a 'genuine' oil.

## Same root

- [KI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-NU/index.md>) (Kīnu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K; HALOT
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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