# \*tinnīt- 'Tanit/Tinit (Punic goddess, face of Baal)'

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

- Author's gloss: Tanit, a goddess
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/t/2967_Tanit_Tinit_Punic_goddess_face_of_Baal.md

## In Linear A

- [TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (Tanāt): Tanāt, a variant of Tinit, the goddess TNT, feminine of √t-n-n 'sea-dragon'; rival a form of A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat
- [TA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-TI/index.md>) (Tanāti): the goddess TNT (Tinnit), feminine of √t-n-n 'sea-dragon'
- [TI-NI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA/index.md>) (Tinitu): Tinit (goddess, = Phoenician Tanit)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur): Tinit of the Sanctuary (Goddess + Sanctuary pattern)

## Notes

Etymology unsettled: Berber/Tamazight (feminine t-...-t frame), Egyptian (tA-Nt 'she of Neith', cf. Greek Θεννειθ) and Semitic (feminine of tannîn, see 238) proposals. Consort of Baal Hammon, principal goddess of Carthage.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Phoenician: tnt (Krahmalkov 495, s.v. TNT-ʿŠTRT) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: tnt (Krahmalkov 415, s.v. ṢD-TNT); tnt pn bʕl (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Beyond Semitic

- Greek: Θινιθ, Θεννειθ (Krahmalkov 495, s.v. TNT-PNBʿL)

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