# PA₃-NI-NA (banīna)

> our builder

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

- Reading: banīna
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*bVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/649/index.md>) 'build' 1, 'create' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA₃ (pa₃) · NI (ni) · NA (na)
- Rank: #62 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎐𐎊 *bny* — bny 'architect, builder; maker, creator'; bny bnwt 'Creator of creatures', El's title, KTU 1.4 II 11 (DULAT 230–231)
- Akkadian: *bānû* — bānû A 'creator, begetter' (CAD B 94)
- Amorite: BNJ 'build, create': jabnī, bānijum (Gelb AS 21, 16)

## Attestations

- [HT 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6b/index.md>): PA₃-NI-NA 17 ¹⁄₂
- [HT 93a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT93a/index.md>): PA₃-NI-NA GRA PA₃ RE+SE 12 — our 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.

## Same root

- [PA₃-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-NI/index.md>) (bānī)
- [PA₃-NI-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-NI-WI/index.md>) (bānīy)

## In the onomasticon

- [PA₃-NI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA~E2~82~83-NI-NA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- CAD B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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