# \*ʾigān- 'cup, bowl'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: bowl, basin; cauldron
- SED semet 1435
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/1358_cup_bowl.md

## In Linear A

- [\*412](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*412/index.md>) (ʾigān): large open bowl or basin for liquids; wine bowl
- [A-KA-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KA-NU/index.md>) (ʾagānu): cup, bowl

## Notes

Arabic ʾijjānat and the Ethiopic word are loans from Aramaic (Fraenkel 68 and Leslau 9 apud HALOT 11). Lane 26 glosses ʾijjānat 'a vessel in which clothes are washed'. Egyptian *ʾaguna 'large vessel', in Syrian tribute (Urk. IV 665, 16; 717, 16), written a-ku-nu at Amarna, EA 14 iii 36, EA 148:12 (Hoch 1994, 42–43 no. 36). A Sarepta jug handle in Ugaritic script reads agn z pʿl yd[--] 'this bowl PN made', KTU 6.70 1 (Rendsburg 2026, 204).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: agannu

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: ʔaggān
- Punic: ʔgnn (T 3) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔagānā 'large bowl, wine vessel; crater' (Payne Smith 3)
- Ugaritic: agn (Rendsburg 2026, 204); ʾgn (T 3) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ʾaggānaʾ (T 3)
- Phoenician: ʾgn, in hʾgn (Krahmalkov 31) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔiǧǧāna (LGz. 79) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: ʕaygan; ʕaygān; ʔaygan (LGz. 79) (gloss withheld)

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