# JE-TA-NA (Yatana)

> He gave (PN, qatal 3ms of √y-t-n 'to give')—straight theophoric truncation: Yatana-DN 'DN-gave,' same root as Hebrew Nāṯān, Ugaritic Yattin-Haddu, Amorite Yantin-Dagan, Yattin-Dagan (Gelb 1980, nos. 2986, 3555)

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Yatana
- Type: Personal name; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [JE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-TA-NA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Qatal 3ms of √y-t-n. JE = /ya/ here (not /ye/), same ambiguity as LB je. Straight theophoric truncation: Yatana-DN 'DN-gave,' paralleling Hebrew Nāṯān, Ugaritic Yattin-Haddu, Amorite Yantin-Dagan, Yattin-Dagan (Gelb 1980, nos. 2986, 3555). Masculine counterpart of A-TA-NA-TE (ʾAtanat), the divine name that becomes Athena—feminine of the same root with I-y > ʾ weakening. Both forms attest √y-t-n productivity in Minoan onomastics. On the Haghia Triada nodule HTWa1020.

## Outside the corpus

ug_hg_0509

## Attestations

- [HT Wa 1020](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1020/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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