# \*mVnn- 'bestow, grant a favour' 1, 'favour, benefit' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to grant a favour; favour, benefit
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/3776_bestow_grant_a_favour_1_favour_benefit_2.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-MI-NU/index.md>) (Ḏā-Mīnu): personal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y); rival √m-n-n 'He of the Favor'

## Notes

Arabic manna ʿalayhi also 'he reproached him for a favour he had bestowed' (Lane 3024); HALOT 602 joins that sense, Arb. mnn 'to reprove a good deed', to Geez and Tigre 'to despise, reject'. Not 2965 *mann- 'manna' nor 850 *mnḥ 'give, offer'.

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: manna ʿalayhi 'he conferred, or bestowed, upon him a favour, or benefit' 1, inf. mann; imtanna id. (Lane 3024)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic tmn, t-stem: l PN w tmn (ISB 86) (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 133) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab mn 2 (Gl 1379/6) (SD 86) (gloss withheld)

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