# \*kinaʕn- 'Canaan' 1, 'Canaanite' 2

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

- Author's gloss: Canaan; Canaanite
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/k/3786_Canaan_1_Canaanite_2.md

## In Linear A

- [KA-NA-NI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NA-NI-TI/index.md>) (kanaʿanītī): the Canaanite (ethnonymic designation)

## Notes

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

## Reflexes: East Semitic

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

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: kᵉnaʿan 1; kᵉnaʿănî 2 (HALOT 485) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: knʕny 2 (KTU 4.96:7); syll. ki-na-aʔ-na-na /kinaʕnānu/ (DULAT 444) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: knʿn 1 (Krahmalkov 236) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: knʿny 2; knʿn (KAI 116) (Krahmalkov 236) (gloss withheld)

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