God or goddess · Semitic
TA-NA-TE
Tanāt, a variant of Tinit, the goddess TNT, feminine of √t-n-n 'sea-dragon'; rival a form of A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat
- Reading
- Tanāt
- Type
- God or goddess Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- TA-NA-TE
Commentary
Tanāt (√t-n-n), a variant of Tinit (TI-NI-TA), the goddess TNT; ZA 10a lists A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat as a separate entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry TA-NA-TE.
- PunicTNT (Tanit, Tinnit); in Greek letters Θινιθ, Θεννειθ (Krahmalkov 2000, 495)
- Hebrewתַּנִּיןtannīntannīn תַּנִּין "dragon/sea-serpent"
- Ugaritic𐎚𐎐𐎐tnntnn "dragon" (KTU 1.3 III 40; DULAT p. 860)
- Greekθύννοςθύννος "tunny" (BDB: Phoenician loanword from same root)