# PA₃-NI (bānī)

> builder (a personnel class)

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

- Reading: bānī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*bVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/649/index.md>) 'build' 1, 'create' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA₃ (pa₃) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎐𐎊 *bny* — bny 'builder' (GlOS 1, 122)
- Amorite: BANIJ-IM Baniyim, the active participle as a name (Gelb 1980, no. 1128)

## Attestations

- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): PA₃-NI 12 — builder(s)
- [HT 102](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT102/index.md>): PA₃-NI GRA+PA 33 — builder (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.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD B; GlOS 1; Gelb 1980
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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