U-NA-KA-NA-SI
So, behold my gathering! (conjunction + presentative + G verbal noun kanāsī + 1cs -ī)
- Reading
- wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī
- Confidence
- Confirmed
- Root
- *kanVs- ‘to gather, assemble’
- Kind
- Ritual
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #16 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewכָּנַסkānaskānas (כָּנַס) ‘to gather, assemble’ (Esth 4:16, Ezek 22:21, Neh 12:44); knesset (כְּנֶסֶת) ‘assembly, gathering’; √k-n-s ‘to gather’
- Akkadiankamāsukamāsu A ‘to gather, store’ (CAD K 114–117); earlier form of Hebrew kns via m~n interchange (Greenfield 2001, 840–846)
- Aramaicכנשknašknaš (כנש) ‘to gather, assemble’; kiništu (NB/LB loan) ‘priestly college’ (AHw 480a; Greenfield 2001)
- Arabicكنسkanasakanasa (كنس) ‘to sweep, collect’; kanīsah (كنيسة) ‘synagogue, church’ (< Aramaic knš)
Attestations7 cited
- IO Za 23DA-TA-I-*301-WA-JA JA-DI-KI-TU JA-SA-SA-RA-[ME] [U-NA-KA-NA]-SI I-PI-NA-MASo, behold my gathering!
- IO Za 93DU-NA-KA-[NA-SI]so, behold my gathering!
- KO Za 13DU-NA-KA-NA-SISo, behold my gathering!
- PK Za 83DJA-SA[ U-NA-KA-NA-SI[so, behold my gathering
- PK Za 273D[…] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME Ụ-NA-KA-[and behold, [my gathering]
- SY Za 23DU-NA-KA-NA-SI-OLE
- TL Za 13DJA-SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-KA-NA-SI[…]So behold, my gathering
Commentary
U-NA is wannā ‘and behold’, Ugaritic wn from *wa-hanna/u, the Hebrew wə-hinnē (Lipiński 1997, §27.25); the alphabetic spelling leaves the vowels open, and winnā is the rival. KA-NA-SI is kanāsī, the G verbal noun of √k-n-s ‘gather’ with the 1cs suffix -ī, ‘my gathering’, agreeing with the 1cs A- of formula position one. SI writes s and the hushed š alike, so KA-NA-SI also reads kanāšī, with the š of Aramaic knaš ‘gather’ and knāš ‘gathering’. The group is intact on KO Za 1, PK Za 8, SY Za 2 and TL Za 1, restored or partial on IO Za 2 and IO Za 9. Rivals: Syriac knšy ‘gather!’ (Peshitta Jer 10:17); kanāšī ‘my submission’ (√k-n-š, Akk. kanāšu ‘bow down’; Amorite ka-na-šum, ka-ni-šum, Ebla gi-ne-su-um, GlOS 1, 313), the sense of Arabic ʾislām ‘submission’ (Q 3:19). See U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI.