Proto-Semitic root
*ṯVny-
‘two’
di Mino’s gloss: two, second, double
Record 2553 ↗ · SED semet 3087 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Verbal derivative *tanāyu(m) ‘to repeat, do for second time’ (Lipiński OLA80 §35.34). Ordinal ṯānī ‘second’. An early change n > r explains the by-form ṭir- of ṭin- in Aramaic and Modern South Arabian (cf. Gurage, §17.6); Egyptian šn-w ‘two’, šn ‘brother’ (Lipiński OLA80 §35.4a). SD 151 enters ṮNY II apart from ṮNY I ‘two’.
Reflexes17 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianšinā (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §2.3.2 no. 91; AHw 1241)
- Eblaiticṯaniy: sa-nename ša-ni (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 324)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic7
- Ugariticṯn (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §2.2.1 no. 91)
- Phoenicianšnmšny (T 327)šnyšn, ʾšnm, štm (Krahmalkov 474)gloss withheld
- Hebrewšǝnayim
- Punicšnm (HALOT 1605)šnyʾšn (Krahmalkov 474)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaictinyānā (HALOT 1604)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaic*tinyān (HALOT 1604)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaictenyānā 'second, doubletwo years old' (Payne Smith 616)
Arabic2
- Arabicʔiṯnāniṯānī (LGz. 509)gloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianDadanitic ṯtn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 136)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianṯny (Sabaweb lemma 1412)ṯn-, ṯny- (SD 151)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian5
- Mehriṯōni, me-ṯeny-ētgloss withheld
- Soqotrimitníohgloss withheld
- Harsusiṯēnye, me-ṯenē-tgloss withheld
- Jibbalimeṯenútgloss withheld
- Geezsānyĕ, sanūy (HALOT 1604, 1605)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.