Proto-Semitic root
*kanVs-
‘to gather, assemble’
di Mino’s gloss: to gather, assemble
Record 2763 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A4 entries
KA-NA-TIkanastiyou (f.) gathered (2fs suffix form)SpeculativeSemitic1U-NA-KA-NA-SIwannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsīSo, behold my gathering! (conjunction + presentative + G verbal noun kanāsī + 1cs -ī)ConfirmedSemitic73DU-NA-RU-KA-NA-SIwannā lū kanāsīand behold, may my gathering [take place] (proposed precative lū)CandidateSemitic13DU-NA-RU-KA-NA-TIwannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanastiso, behold, may you gather!CandidateSemitic13D
Notes
Krahmalkov 236 compares Hebrew k-n-s, k-n-š and Aramaic k-n-š ‘gather, assemble’ with Neo-Punic knš ‘convenor’.
Reflexes6 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadiankamāsu A (CAD K 114–117)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic5
- Hebrewkānas (HALOT 484)gloss withheld
- Aramaicknaš (DJPA 264a apud CAL)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicknaš ‘gather, collect, assemble’ (Payne Smith 219)
- PunicNeo-Punic knš (Krahmalkov 236)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicknšhitpa. (HALOT 484)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.