# \*bVn- 'build' 1, 'create' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to build; builder, building; create
- SED semet 634
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/b/649_build_1_create_2.md

## In Linear A

- [PA₃-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-NI/index.md>) (bānī): builder (a personnel class)
- [PA₃-NI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-NI-NA/index.md>) (banīna): our builder
- [PA₃-NI-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-NI-WI/index.md>) (bānīy): the builder (nisba/gentilic)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: banû 1, 2

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: bna 1
- Ugaritic: bny, bnw 1
- Phoenician: bny 1 (T 49); mbnt 1 (T 165) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: bny 1
- Amorite: bny 1; yabnî, yibnî, yabannî (Buck 2019, 325) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: bny 1 OAram bny, Aram (Emp, Nab) bnh, bnʔ, (Palm) bnʔ 1 (DNWSI 173) (OffAr, Palm) bnyn 1 (DNWSI 178) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: bnʾ, bʿn, bʾn (T 49); Neo-Punic hbnʾ 1 (Krahmalkov 104) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: bnā 'build; edify, restore, exhort' (Payne Smith 48)
- Canaanite: Amm. bnh (DNWSI 174); Moab bnh (DNWSI 174) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: benaʾ (T 49)
- Biblical Aramaic: bny 1 (HALOT 139) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: bny [-i-] 1, 2
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic bny (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 61); bnyt 1; Dadanitic bny 1; Hismaic bny 1; Hasaitic bny 1 (Al-Jallad 2026, 29) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: bny 1; Sab bny (SD 29, 30; Biella 48; Sabaweb lemma 3947); Qat. bny 1 (Ricks 1982 s.v. bny) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: benû 1
- Soqotri: béne 1
- Jibbali: bené 1

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