# QA-\*310-I (qaynī)

> smith or cultic administrator; occupational title

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

- Reading: qaynī
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ḳVyVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/572/index.md>) 'forge'
- Kind: Occupation
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · \*310 · I (i)
- Rank: #59 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Sabaic: *qyn* — qyn 'administrator, governor,' including an administrator of a god or king (Biella 1982, 454)
- Arabic: *qayn* — qayn 'smith, artisan'
- Hebrew: *qēnî* — qēnî 'Kenite' (formal comparison; semantic relationship uncertain)

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>): QA-\*310-I ³⁄₄ — the smith or administrator
- [HT 8b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8b/index.md>): QA-\*310-I 1 ³⁄₈ — smith or administrator (occupational title)
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): QA-\*310-I 1 — smith or cultic administrator; occupational title
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): QA-\*310-I 3 — smith or cultic administrator; occupational title

## Commentary

Four Haghia Triada lists: HT 8a, HT 8b, HT 85b, the last of its roster of single units, and HT 122a, QA-*310-I 3 after TE-KI 2. QA-IN-I qaynī, with *310 in its proposed value in. Arb. qayn 'smith' (HALOT 1097), Sabaic qyn 'administrator, governor', of a god or a king as well (Biella 1982, 454): a recurring occupational or administrative title. Cf. Heb. qênî 'Kenite' (HALOT 1097). Four attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [QA-\*310-I](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QA-*310-I/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Biella 1982
- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln

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