Gentilic · Semitic
KA-NA-NI-TI
the Canaanite (ethnonymic designation)
- Reading
- kanaʿanītī
- Type
- Gentilic Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Khania
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- KA-NA-NI-TI
Commentary
KH Wc 2005, a roundel, the word alone. Nisbe -ītī, as DU-RU-WI ḏu-luwwī; Hebrew kĕnaʿanī; Punic Chanani (Krahmalkov 2000, 236).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KA-NA-NI-TI.
- Hebrewkənaʿănîkənaʿănî ‘Canaanite’ (HALOT 485)
- Ugariticknʕnyknʕny GN ‘Canaanite’; Mari LÚ Ki-na-aḫ-num, Alalakh LÚ URU Ki-in-a-nim (AT 48:5) (DULAT 444)
- Punicchanani, the people’s name for themselves, and knʿny (Krahmalkov 236)