# TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU (tan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u))

> may you (f.) answer us (N-stem of √ʿ-n-y in the TA-NA-\[X\]-U-TI-NU frame: 2fs prefix + indicative -u + subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n)

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

- Reading: tan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u)
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ʕVnVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/606/index.md>) 'answer' 1, 'mean, express' 2
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NA (na) · I (i) · \*301 · U (u) · TI (ti) · NU (nu)
- Rank: #81 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- : Hebrew עָנָה *ʿānāh* — Hebrew עָנָה (ʿānāh) 'answer'; Ugaritic ʿny 'answer'; Amarna Canaanite ʿ-n-y forms; Eblaite i-na-a yiʿnay, na-ni naʿni, the ʿ unwritten, Amorite ia-aḫ-nu-ú yaʿnū (GlOS 1, 84)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa6/index.md>): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — May you (f.) answer us
- [PS Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PSZa2/index.md>): TA-NA-I-\*301-(TI/E) \[…\]-JA-(TI/E) JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — TI: May you (f.) answer; E: May she/you answer
- [ZA Zb 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAZb3/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-DE-KA A-RE-PI-RE-NA TI-TI-KU — who-answered-for-you

## Commentary

IO Za 6, position 1: TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU · I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA · JA-SA-SA-RA-ME ·. tan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u) 'may you (f.) answer us': TA the 2fs prefix, NA the N-stem, I-*301 the root ʿ-n-y with *301 = na, U the indicative -u, TI the 2fs subject clitic -tī, NU the 1cp object -n. The verb addresses and puns on the theonym that follows, I-NA-TA-I ʿInatī 'my Anat'. The frame is that of TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU (IO Za 2, √r-ṣ-y), with the root slot changed. Ugaritic tʿnyn /taʿniyūna/ (KTU 1.23:12) supports the root and a t-…-n profile, not the segmentation. The family: TA-NA-I-*301-TI on PS Za 2, where GORILA reads the last sign as an uncertain TI and Ferrara, Montecchi and Valério (2022, 87) as E, 'may you (f.) answer' with TI, 'may she or you answer' with E; A-TA-I-*301-DE-KA on ZA Zb 3, 'who answered for you'. One attestation of this form, three of the family. See I-NA-TA-I.

## 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
- Ferrara, Silvia; Montecchi, Barbara; Valério, Miguel (2022), The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: A Palaeographic and Structural Approach. Pasiphae,16,Fabrizio Serra Editore,81–109
- 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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