# U-NA (wannā)

> and behold (contracted conjunction + h-n presentative)

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

- Reading: wannā
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*hn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3482/index.md>) 'behold; here' 1, 'this' 2
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · NA (na)
- Rank: #50 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: הִנֵּה *hinnēh* — hinnēh (הִנֵּה) "behold" (< *han + emphatic); ha- definite article (< *han with n-assimilation)
- Arabic: هَنّا *hanna/hānnā* — hanna/hānnā (هَنّا) "behold, here is"; al- article (< *hal?)
- Aramaic: -ā definite suffix (< *han postposed)
- Akkadian: *annû* — annû "this" (demonstrative, same *han base)
- Sabaic: *hn* — hn "here is, behold" (free presentative)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa2/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-DI-KI-TU JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\] \[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI I-PI-NA-MA
- [IO Za 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa9/index.md>): U-NA-KA-\[NA-SI\]
- [IO Za 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa16/index.md>): ME U-NA-RU-KA\[
- [KO Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KOZa1/index.md>): U-NA-KA-NA-SI
- [PK Za 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa8/index.md>): JA-SA\[ U-NA-KA-NA-SI\[
- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI
- [PK Za 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa12/index.md>): \]RA-ME\[ \]A-\[…\]-NE U-NA-RU-KA-\[?\]-JA-SI A-PA-DU-PA-\[…\] \]JA-\[…\] JA-PA-QA
- [PK Za 27](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa27/index.md>): \[…\] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME Ụ-NA-KA-\[
- [SY Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa2/index.md>): U-NA-KA-NA-SI-OLE
- [TL Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TLZa1/index.md>): JA-SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-KA-NA-SI\[…\]

## 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.

## Same root

- [I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA/index.md>) (hinna)
- [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (hinna yapqaḥ)
- [U-NA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-A/index.md>) (wannā(h) / winnā(h))

## 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
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- Watson, Wilfred G. E. (1996), Further Comments on Ugaritic wn. Aula Orientalis,14,285–287
- Sivan, Daniel (2001), A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language. Handbuch der Orientalistik, Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 28,Brill
- 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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