PA₃-NI-WI

the builder (nisba/gentilic)

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Reading
bānīy
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*bVn- ‘build’ 1, ‘create’ 2
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎁𐎐𐎊bnybny ‘architect, builder; maker, creator’ (DULAT 231)
  • Akkadianbānûbānû B ‘housebuilder’ (CAD B 95)
  • HebrewBānî, PN, bənê bānî, Ezra 2:10 (HALOT 139)
  • AmoritePN BANIJ-IM (Gelb AS 21 no. 1128); bānijum (Gelb AS 21, 16)

Attestations1 cited

  1. SY Za 4A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA JA-I-NWA-RO PA₃-NI-WIthe Builder

Commentary

SY Za 4, the Syme libation formula, beside A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA and JA-I-NWA-RO. √b-n-y ‘build’ with the NWS gentilic *-iy, written -WI: bānīy ‘the builder’. The same nisba closes DU-RU-WI (*ḏu-luwwī ‘the Levite’, ‘the attached one’) and U-RE-WI (*ʾūr-lēwī), occupational adjectives from the gentilic *-iyy-; Linear A writes the glide of /iy/ as WI, where Hebrew contracts it to -î. The Merarite Levite Bānî (בָּנִי, 1 Chr 6:31) bears the name. RILA-S1 underdots WI and rates PA₃-NI-PI less plausible (RILA-S1 84). One attestation. See PA₃-NI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon