Proto-Semitic root

*ḥanan-

‘show favour, be gracious’

di Mino’s gloss: to be gracious, show favour, have mercy; grace

In Linear A2 entries

A-NA-NEḥanāngrace, favorCandidateSemitic1 A-NA-NUḤanānupersonal name Ḥanānu 'gracious'SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

The noun is K0734 *ḥen- ‘favour’. Hajouz 2013, 302 reads VE 68 ʔà-na-núm as /ḥan(a)num/, verbal adjective ‘gracious’, where Sanmartín GlOS 1, 244 has the noun /ḥann/.

Reflexes14 languages

East Semitic2

Akkadianenēnu ‘grant’Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn
Eblaitica-a-ʔà-na-an, ʔà-na-na, ʔà-na-num /ḥ-n-n/ʔà-na-núm /ḥann/, en-nu /ḥinn//ḥunn/: names u₄-ne-a-nu, u₉-na-na, u₉-na-núm (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 243–244)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic10

AramaicḤNN ‘mercy’Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn
Hebrewḥanan (BDB 335; HALOT 334)ḥnynh (DNWSI 388)gloss withheld
Punicḥnn ‘gracious’Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn
Ugariticḥnn (G/D?) (DULAT 361)gloss withheld
Phoenicianḥnn (T 109)gloss withheld
Amoriteḥnn: jaḥun, jaḥnun, ḥananum, ḥananatum (Gelb AS 21, 20)ḥannu, ḥinnu, ḥunna, ḥunanu (Buck 2019, 327)ḫinnu: ḫi-in-na-ša (M.A.R.I. 6, 282: 6–8) (Streck 2000, 98)ḥ-n-n: ia-ḫu-na-a, ia-ḫu-un-DINGIR, a-na-na (Ur III)ḥann, ḥinn, ḥunn, ḥinun (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 243–245)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicḥan 'pity, sparebe gracious' (Payne Smith 148)
Judaic Aramaicḥanan (T 109)gloss withheld
Mandaic Aramaichnn (T 109)
Biblical Aramaicḥanan (T 109)

Arabic2

Arabicḥanūn, ḥannān (HALOT 333)
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ḥnn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 86)gloss withheld

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