# QA-NE (qanē)

> reed, cane; rival lapis lazuli

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

- Reading: qanē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳanaw/y-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3035/index.md>) 'reed'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎐 *qn* — qn 'cane; arrow'; lapis lazuli is ỉqnủ, var. qnỉm (KTU 2.73:7) (GlOS 1, 19, 348)
- Eblaite: GIŠ.GI = ga-nu-um, ga-nu-wu 'reed' (GlOS 1, 348)
- Hebrew: קָנֶה *qāneh* — qāneh קָנֶה "reed, cane, measuring rod" (Exod 30:23, Ezek 40:3)
- Akkadian: *qanû* — qanû "reed, cane"

## Attestations

- [KH 47](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH47/index.md>): QA-NE

## Commentary

KH 47: QA-NE 6 in a commodity context, which favours a commodity over a name; Khania is a western Cretan port with strong trade, and either imported lapis or local cane suits its accounts. Ug. qn has two senses: 'reed, cane', √q-n-y, qanē, BH qāneh קָנֶה 'reed, measuring rod', the source of 'cane' and 'canon'; and 'lapis lazuli', a sense of Ugaritic alone. KA-NA, at the head of the HT 23a aromatics ledger and on HT 123+124b, is the same word with K for q, so the word stands at two sites, and the aromatics ledger favours the cane there over the stone.

## Same root

- [KA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NA/index.md>) (qana / qanû)
- [QA-NU-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-NU-MA/index.md>) (qanūma)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1
- 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
- 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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