# U-NA-KA-NA-SI (wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī) > So, behold my gathering! (conjunction + presentative + G verbal noun kanāsī + 1cs -ī) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī - Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal. - Root: [\*kanVs-]() 'to gather, assemble' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: U (u) · NA (na) · KA (ka) · NA (na) · SI (si) - Rank: #16 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: כָּנַס *kānas* — kānas (כָּנַס) 'to gather, assemble' (Esth 4:16, Ezek 22:21, Neh 12:44); knesset (כְּנֶסֶת) 'assembly, gathering'; √k-n-s 'to gather' - Akkadian: *kamāsu* — kamāsu A 'to gather, store' (CAD K 114–117); earlier form of Hebrew kns via m~n interchange (Greenfield 2001, 840–846) - Aramaic: כנש *knaš* — knaš (כנש) 'to gather, assemble'; kiništu (NB/LB loan) 'priestly college' (AHw 480a; Greenfield 2001) - Arabic: كنس *kanasa* — kanasa (كنس) 'to sweep, collect'; kanīsah (كنيسة) 'synagogue, church' (< Aramaic knš) ## Attestations - [IO Za 2](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-DI-KI-TU JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\] \[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI I-PI-NA-MA — So, behold my gathering! - [IO Za 9](): U-NA-KA-\[NA-SI\] — so, behold my gathering! - [KO Za 1](): U-NA-KA-NA-SI — So, behold my gathering! - [PK Za 8](): JA-SA\[ U-NA-KA-NA-SI\[ — so, behold my gathering - [PK Za 27](): \[…\] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME Ụ-NA-KA-\[ — and behold, [my gathering] - [SY Za 2](): U-NA-KA-NA-SI-OLE - [TL Za 1](): JA-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. ## Same root - [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI]() (wannā lū kanāsī) - [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI]() (wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti) - [KA-NA-TI]() (kanasti) ## References - Reading: di Mino; Lipiński 1997; GlOS 1 - AHw: von Soden, Wolfram (1981), Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Bd. I–III. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden - Lipiński, Edward (1997), Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 80) - Greenfield, Jonas C. (2001), Three Related Roots: KMS, KNS, and KNŠ. In Paul, Shalom M.; Stone, Michael E.; Pinnick, Avital (eds.), ʿAl Kanfei Yonah: Collected Studies of Jonas C. Greenfield on Semitic Philology,II,Brill,840–846 - CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.