# \*ʕVnVy- 'answer' 1, 'mean, express' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to answer, respond; to mean, intend
- SED semet 586
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BF/606_answer_1_mean_express_2.md

## In Linear A

- [TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU/index.md>) (tan-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 + indicative -u + subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n)

## 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'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

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

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: ʕny 1
- Ugaritic: ʿny (CUC; DULAT 169) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: ʿNY (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 875) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʿny]
- Syrian Aramaic: ʕnā 'answer; hearken; converse; sing' (Payne Smith 419)
- Amorite: maʿnītu (Buck 2019, 325); ʿ-n-y 1: ia-aḫ-nu-ú (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 84) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: ʕny 1 (HALOT BArm. s.v. I ענה) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʕny 2 i,1,19 (Lane 2180)

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