# U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI (wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti)

> so, behold, may you gather!

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

- Reading: wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kanVs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2763/index.md>) 'to gather, assemble'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · NA (na) · RU (ru) · KA (ka) · NA (na) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: כְּנֶסֶת *kəneset* — כְּנֶסֶת kəneset 'assembly' (later Hebrew); כָּנַסְתִּי qānastī 'I gathered' (Eccl 2:8)
- Akkadian: *kamāsu* — kamāsu A 'to gather, store' (CAD K 114–117); earlier form via m~n interchange (Greenfield 2001)
- Aramaic: *knāš* — knāš 'gathering, collection'; Syriac knuštā 'congregation, assembly' (CAL)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI — so, behold, may you gather!

## Commentary

PK Za 11, after A-SA-SA-RA-ME and before I-PI-NA-MI-NA: U-NA /wannā/ or /winnā/ 'so, behold' + RU /lū/ 'may' + KA-NA-TI /kanasti/, 2fs suffix form of √k-n-s 'gather': 'so, behold, may you gather!' (di Mino, Ya Diktu). The coda /s/ is unwritten, per the Linear B rule that drops syllable-final s before a stop (Ventris and Chadwick 1956, 45; pa-ka-na /phasgana/). Hebrew has the same opening sequence: הֵן לוּ יְהִי hēn lū yəhî 'behold, may it be' (Gen 30:34). Cf. KA-NA-SI /kanāsī/ 'my gathering'. Rivals: a K-N-S-T feminine collective /kanast/, 'may there be a gathering', with lū introducing a verbless injunction as in Akkadian (Huehnergard 1997, §§22.2, 29.3; cf. later Hebrew kəneset 'assembly'); /kānastī/ 'I gathered', paralleled by Biblical Hebrew כָּנַסְתִּי (Eccl 2:8), a 1cs verb; √k-n-š, see U-NA-KA-NA-SI. One attestation.

## Same root

- [U-NA-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī)
- [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā lū kanāsī)
- [KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NA-TI/index.md>) (kanasti)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- Ventris, M. & Chadwick, J. (1956), Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary. Cambridge University Press
- 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
- CAL: Kaufman, Stephen A. (editor) et al. (2026), The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL). Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati (cal.huc.edu)
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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