# \*dagān- 'Dagon (grain deity; Philistine/Canaanite god)'

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

- Author's gloss: Dagan, a god
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/d/2994_Dagon_grain_deity_Philistine_Canaanite_god.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-KU-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-KU-NA/index.md>) (Daguna): personal name on Dagan, Daguna

## Notes

HALOT 213 also cites Greek Σίτων ('grain' god). Cf. 2315 *dagan- 'grain'. At Ebla Dagan is the 'Lord of Tuttul', ᵈBE du-du-luᵏⁱ = ᵈLUGAL du-du-luᵏⁱ (Antalík 1998, 36; Sallaberger 2018, 116).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: Dagana, Daguna (Babylonian; HALOT 213)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: dāgôn (Judg 16:23; 1 Sam 5:2–7; HALOT 213) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: dgn DN (DULAT 265; HALOT 213)
- Phoenician: dgn (HALOT 213)
- Amorite: Dagan, *Dagan (Huffmon APNM 180); Dagān, DN (Gelb AS 21, 17) (gloss withheld)

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