Proto-Semitic root

*ʕVnVy-

‘answer’ 1, ‘mean, express’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: to answer, respond; to mean, intend

Record 606 ↗ · SED semet 586 · Basis: SED

In Linear A1 entry

TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NUtan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u)may you (f.) answer us (N-stem of √ʿ-n-y in the TA-NA-[X]-U-TI-NU frame: 2fs prefix +…)ProbableSemitic33D

Notes

HALOT 854 sets III ʿnh ‘to be busy’ apart. Kogan 2025, 9 n. 22 (after Arkhipov–Kogan 2025, 6–7) reads i-na-a in ARET 13, 1 as /hinnay/ ‘here’.

Reflexes8 languages

East Semitic1

Eblaitici-na-a, na-ni, a-na-a /ʿ-n-y/ 1 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 84)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic6

Hebrewʕny 1
Ugariticʿny (CUC; DULAT 169)gloss withheld
AramaicʿNY (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 875)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʿny
Syrian Aramaicʕnā 'answerhearkenconversesing' (Payne Smith 419)
Amoritemaʿnītu (Buck 2019, 325)ʿ-n-y 1: ia-aḫ-nu-ú (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 84)gloss withheld
Biblical Aramaicʕny 1 (HALOT BArm. s.v. I ענה)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabicʕny 2 i,1,19 (Lane 2180)

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

Linear A Lexicon