U-NA

and behold (contracted conjunction + h-n presentative)

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Reading
wannā
Confidence
Probable
Root
*hn ‘behold’
Kind
Particle
Language
Semitic
Rank
#50 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Hebrewהִנֵּהhinnēhhinnēh (הִנֵּה) "behold" (< *han + emphatic); ha- definite article (< *han with n-assimilation)
  • Arabicهَنّاhanna/hānnāhanna/hānnā (هَنّا) "behold, here is"; al- article (< *hal?)
  • Aramaic-ā definite suffix (< *han postposed)
  • Akkadianannûannû "this" (demonstrative, same *han base)
  • Sabaichnhn "here is, behold" (free presentative)

Attestations10 cited

  1. 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-MA
  2. IO Za 93DU-NA-KA-[NA-SI]
  3. IO Za 163DME U-NA-RU-KA[
  4. KO Za 13DU-NA-KA-NA-SI
  5. PK Za 83DJA-SA[ U-NA-KA-NA-SI[
  6. PK Za 113DSA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI
  7. PK Za 12]RA-ME[ ]A-[…]-NE U-NA-RU-KA-[?]-JA-SI A-PA-DU-PA-[…] ]JA-[…] JA-PA-QA
  8. PK Za 273D[…] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME Ụ-NA-KA-[

Commentary

/wannā/ ‘and behold’, comparing Ugaritic w hn beside contracted wn (KTU 1.23:46; 1.4 IV 50; Watson 1996, 285–87; Sivan 2001, 34, 186) and Lipiński’s *wa-hanna/u > wn (1997, §27.25). Hebrew wəhinnē keeps /h/; Ebla a-na, an-na, i-na, in-na and Ugarit syllabic a-né-en-na write the presentative without h- (GlOS 1, 218). Rival: /winnā/, since alphabetic Ugaritic leaves the vowels open; Tropper 2000, §33.142.23 allows */wa-hinnV/ > /winnV/, though he prefers w with enclitic -n. See U-NA-A, I-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon