PA₃-NI-NA

our builder

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Reading
banīna
Confidence
Probable
Root
*bVn- ‘build’ 1, ‘create’ 2
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
#62 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎁𐎐𐎊bnybny ‘architect, builder; maker, creator’; bny bnwt ‘Creator of creatures’, El’s title, KTU 1.4 II 11 (DULAT 230–231)
  • Akkadianbānûbānû A ‘creator, begetter’ (CAD B 94)
  • AmoriteBNJ ‘build, create’: jabnī, bānijum (Gelb AS 21, 16)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 6bPA₃-NI-NA 17 ¹⁄₂
  2. HT 93aPA₃-NI-NA GRA PA₃ RE+SE 12our builder

Commentary

HT 6b and HT 93a: a personnel designation. √b-n-y ‘build’, the participle bāniyu with the 1pl possessive -na: banīna ‘our builder’. See PA₃-NI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon