Proto-Semitic root

*qVnVy-

‘acquire, create’

di Mino’s gloss: to acquire, possess; create; property, livestock

In Linear A1 entry

KA-NI-JA-MIqāniy-yammiCreator of the Sea (El epithet)SpeculativeSemitic13D

Notes

HALOT 1111 I qnh ‘acquire, create’; qāneh ‘reed’ is a separate primary noun (HALOT 1113; 3035). Geez qanaya I, i.q. qānaya ‘modulari, concentum facere’ (LLA 447), is another root; the Geez cell is qanaya II ‘acquirere, emere’ (LLA 447–448).

Reflexes18 languages

East Semitic2

Akkadianqanû (CAD Q 91)qinītu A (CAD Q 254)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root qny
Eblaitic/q-n-y/: cf. names ig-na-um, ig-na-lu-ù, ig-na-da-ar (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 348)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic11

AramaicQNYmqny (DNWSI 680)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root qny
Hebrewqanah ‘get’Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny
PunicqnymqnʾN.Pu. mqnʾt (T 197)N.Pu. qn (T 290)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root qny
Ugariticqny (Leslau CDG 437)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaicqənā (HALOT 1111)gloss withheld
Phoenicianqnh (HALOT 1111)qn (T 289–290)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicqənā (HALOT 1111; Payne Smith 509)qanāyūtā (Payne Smith 510)gloss withheld
Mandaic AramaicQNA (HALOT 1111)gloss withheld
Amoriteqnj: jaqnī, qanij(ān)um, qanijatum (Gelb AS 21, 29)q-n-y: cf. iq-ni-um, ia-aq-ni-DINGIR, ta(?)-aq-ni-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 348)gloss withheld
Biblical Aramaicqenaʾ (T 290)
Emarqí-na-ti /qinātu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 149)gloss withheld

Arabic2

Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic qnwt (Al-Jallad 2026, 112)gloss withheld
Arabicqanā, qnw, qny (HALOT 1111)gloss withheld

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South ArabianSab qny (SD 106; Biella 458, 459; Sabaweb lemma 1332)Qat. qny (Ricks 1982 s.v. qny)gloss withheld

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian2

Geezqny ‘acquire’ (Dillmann 03518)Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny
Soqotriqénhoqanínhin (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 34, fn. 266)gloss withheld

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