# \*ṯny 'to repeat, do again'

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

- Author's gloss: to repeat, do twice; recite
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%AF/3547_to_repeat_do_again.md

## In Linear A

- [TA-NU-NI-KI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-NI-KI-NA/index.md>) (tannî qînâ): chant a dirge!

## Notes

Verb of 2553 *ṯVny- 'two'. Distinct from 3535 *šny 'to change' (HALOT 1597).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šanû A (CAD Š/1 398; AHw 1165) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Amorite: šnj: jišnī, šanijum, juštannī (Gelb AS 21, 33); yiṯnî (Buck 2019, 334) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šnh (HALOT 1598) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: ṯny (HALOT 1598) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: tǝnāʾ (HALOT 1598) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: tnā 'to repeat, recite, tell'; tenyā 'repetition'; tenyānā 'iteration, repetition, recitation' (Payne Smith 616)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ṯanā; II (HALOT 1598); ṯannā (Lane 357); ṯinan, ṯunan (Lane 358) (gloss withheld)

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