# \*qVnVy- 'acquire, create'

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

- Author's gloss: to acquire, possess; create; property, livestock
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/q/K0304_acquire_create.md

## In Linear A

- [KA-NI-JA-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NI-JA-MI/index.md>) (qāniy-yammi): Creator of the Sea (El epithet)

## 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).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: qanû (CAD Q 91); qinītu A (CAD Q 254) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: QNY; mqny (DNWSI 680) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny]
- Hebrew: qanah 'get' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny]
- Punic: qny; mqnʾ; N.Pu. mqnʾt (T 197); N.Pu. qn (T 290) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny]
- Ugaritic: qny (Leslau CDG 437) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: qənā (HALOT 1111) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: qnh (HALOT 1111); qn (T 289–290) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: qənā (HALOT 1111; Payne Smith 509); qanāyūtā (Payne Smith 510) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: QNA (HALOT 1111) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: qnj: 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 Aramaic: qenaʾ (T 290)
- Emar: qí-na-ti /qinātu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 149) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic qnwt (Al-Jallad 2026, 112) (gloss withheld)
- Arabic: qanā, qnw, qny (HALOT 1111) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

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

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: qny 'acquire' (Dillmann 03518) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qny]
- Soqotri: qénho; qanínhin (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 34, fn. 266) (gloss withheld)

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