# PA-NU-QE (Panūq)

> personal name, 'Pampered'; rival Amorite Banuq

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

- Reading: Panūq
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*panaq-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0254/index.md>) 'indulge'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · NU (nu) · QE (qe)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *pānaq* — pānaq 'indulge' (BDB 819)
- Amorite: BANUQ-UM, BA-NU-KU-UM, and BANUQ-AN, BA-NU-KA-AN (Gelb 1980 nos. 1132, 1131), rival

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>): PA-NU-QE 2 — personal name, 'Pampered', 2; rival Amorite Banuq

## Commentary

ZA 14 .4 PA-NU-QE 2, after TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE 45 and before JA-WI[, a recipient among names (GORILA III 181). panūq, a qatūl passive of √p-n-q 'pamper, indulge' on primary values (Heb. pānaq, BDB 819; Syr. paneq 'pamper', Payne Smith 451). Rival: the Amorite name Banuq, BA-NU-KU-UM (Gelb no. 1132), which reads PA as ba. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-NU-QE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-NU-QE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; BDB; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Payne Smith: Payne Smith, J. (Mrs. Margoliouth) (ed.) (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D.. Clarendon Press, Oxford
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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