Gentilic · Semitic
KI-RE-TA-NA
Cretan (gentilic: 'of Crete')
- Reading
- Kretan
- Type
- Gentilic Confirmed
- Language
- Semitic Confirmed
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 4
- Lexicon
- KI-RE-TA-NA
Commentary
Reading from the lexicon (Gordon 1966).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KI-RE-TA-NA.
- Hebrewכְּרֵתִיםkərētîmkərētîm (כְּרֵתִים) ‘Kerethites’: gôy kərētîm ‘nation of Kerethites’, beside kənaʿan ʾereṣ pəlištîm ‘Canaan, land of the Philistines’ (Zeph 2:5); wəhikrattî ʾet-kərētîm ‘and I will cut off the Kerethites’ (Ezek 25:16); hakkərētî wəhappəlētî ‘the Kerethite and the Pelethite’, David’s guard (2 Sam 8:18)
- Linear Bke-re-te Krēteske-re-te Krētes ‘Cretans’, an ethnic (PY An 128.3; Ventris and Chadwick 1956, 147); ke-re-si-jo we-ke ‘of Cretan workmanship’, of tripods (PY Ta 641, 709; Ventris and Chadwick 1956, 396)
- GreekΚρής, pl. Κρῆτες ‘Cretan(s)’; Κρήτη ‘Crete’
- Ugariticsee KI-RE-TA₂