Proto-Semitic root

*kinaʕn-

‘Canaan’ 1, ‘Canaanite’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: Canaan; Canaanite

In Linear A1 entry

HALOT 485 takes the name from ‘red purple’ (Nuzi kinaḫḫu), the purple of the Phoenician coast, then a geographical term. Not 2813 *kVnVʿ- ‘subdue’.

AkkadianKinaḫ(ḫ)i, Kinaḫni 1, EA māt Kinaḫḫi (HALOT 485)Mari LÚ Ki-na-aḫ-num 2 (DULAT 444)

Hebrewkᵉnaʿan 1kᵉnaʿănî 2 (HALOT 485)gloss withheld
Ugariticknʕny 2 (KTU 4.96:7)syll. ki-na-aʔ-na-na /kinaʕnānu/ (DULAT 444)gloss withheld
Phoenicianknʿn 1 (Krahmalkov 236)gloss withheld
Punicknʿny 2knʿn (KAI 116) (Krahmalkov 236)gloss withheld

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