PA₃-NI

builder (a personnel class)

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

  • Ugaritic𐎁𐎐𐎊bnybny ‘builder’ (GlOS 1, 122)
  • AmoriteBANIJ-IM Baniyim, the active participle as a name (Gelb 1980, no. 1128)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 85a3DPA₃-NI 12builder(s)
  2. HT 1023DPA₃-NI GRA+PA 33builder (a personnel class): GRA+PA 33

Commentary

HT 85a PA₃-NI 12, a count of men under A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?], beside DA-RI-DA 12 and U-*325-ZA 6; HT 102 PA₃-NI GRA+PA 33, after SA-RA₂ GRA 976. bānī ‘builder’, the active participle of √b-n-y, *bāniyu > bānī: Ug. bny ‘architect, builder’ (DULAT 231), Akk. bānû ‘housebuilder’ (CAD B 95). Two attestations. See PA₃-NI-NA and PA₃-NI-WI.

On the 3D inscriptions2 inscriptions

HT 85aHaghia Triada…pa₃-niHT 102Haghia Triadapa₃-ni…
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