# \*panaq- 'indulge'

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

- Author's gloss: to indulge, pamper; luxury, delight
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/p/K0254_indulge.md

## In Linear A

- [PA-NU-QE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-NU-QE/index.md>) (Panūq): personal name, 'Pampered'; rival Amorite Banuq

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: PNQ (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. pnq) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root pnq]
- Hebrew: panaq 'indulge' (BDB 819) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root pnq]
- Syrian Aramaic: paneq 'pamper, indulge; live luxuriously' (Payne Smith 451); pūnāqā 'delicacy, daintiness, pleasure' (Payne Smith 438)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: fannaqahu, fānaqahu 'he made him to enjoy a plentiful, pleasant, and soft or delicate life'; tafannaqa 'he led a plentiful, pleasant, soft or delicate life'; fanaq 'plentifulness, and pleasantness, and softness or delicacy, in living' (Lane 2450)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.