Proto-Semitic root

*ḳanaw/y-

‘reed’

di Mino’s gloss: reed, cane; aromatic reed

In Linear A3 entries

KA-NAqana / qanûaromatic reed, sweet cane (commodity)CandidateSemitic2 QA-NEqanēreed, caneCandidateSemitic1 QA-NU-MAqanūmareeds (qanūma)CandidateSemitic2

Notes

HALOT 1113: probably a primary noun, apart from I qnh ‘acquire’ (PS *qVnVy-). Mnd. qaina is from Syr. and Arm. qanyā with metathesis (HALOT 1113). Eth. qanōt (Dillmann apud HALOT 1113).

Reflexes11 languages

East Semitic2

Akkadianqanû (qanuʾu) (CAD Q 85)gloss withheld
Eblaiticḳá-nu-wu (Kogan 2011, 201)ga-nu-wu, [ga]-nu-um /ḳan(u)wum/ (VE 416; Krebernik 1983, 16)[ga]-nu-um, ga-nu-wu /qan(u)w/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 348)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic8

Hebrewqāneh (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld
Ugariticqn (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld
Phoenicianqnʾ (T 289)gloss withheld
Punichqnʾ zkʾ (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaicqanyā (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicqanyā (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld
AramaicCPArm. qnyʾ (HALOT 1113)
Mandaic Aramaicqainaʾ (T 289)

Arabic1

Arabicqanā, qanāt (HALOT 1113)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.