# \*ṯVny- 'two'

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

- Author's gloss: two, second, double
- SED semet 3087
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%AF/2553_two.md

## In Linear A

- [TI-NU-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NU-JA/index.md>) (Ṯinuya): personal name, 'Second(-born)'; rival Dīnuya

## 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'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šinā (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §2.3.2 no. 91; AHw 1241)
- Eblaitic: ṯaniy: sa-ne; name ša-ni (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 324) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ṯn (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §2.2.1 no. 91)
- Phoenician: šnm; šny (T 327); šny; šn, ʾšnm, štm (Krahmalkov 474) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šǝnayim
- Punic: šnm (HALOT 1605); šny; ʾšn (Krahmalkov 474) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: tinyānā (HALOT 1604) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: *tinyān (HALOT 1604) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: tenyānā 'second, double; two years old' (Payne Smith 616)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔiṯnāni; ṯānī (LGz. 509) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Dadanitic ṯtn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 136) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: ṯny (Sabaweb lemma 1412); ṯn-, ṯny- (SD 151) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ṯōni, me-ṯeny-ēt (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: mitníoh (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: ṯēnye, me-ṯenē-t (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: meṯenút (gloss withheld)
- Geez: sānyĕ, sanūy (HALOT 1604, 1605)

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