# \*ḥanan- 'show favour, be gracious'

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

- Author's gloss: to be gracious, show favour, have mercy; grace
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B8%A5/K0736_show_favour_be_gracious.md

## In Linear A

- [A-NA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-NA-NE/index.md>) (ḥanān): grace, favor
- [A-NA-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-NA-NU/index.md>) (Ḥanānu): personal name Ḥanānu 'gracious'; rival ʿAnānu 'cloud'

## 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/.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: enēnu 'grant' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn]
- Eblaitic: a-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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: ḤNN 'mercy' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn]
- Hebrew: ḥanan (BDB 335; HALOT 334); ḥnynh (DNWSI 388) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: ḥnn 'gracious' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḥnn]
- Ugaritic: ḥnn (G/D?) (DULAT 361) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: ḥnn (T 109) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: ḥnn: 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 Aramaic: ḥan 'pity, spare; be gracious' (Payne Smith 148)
- Judaic Aramaic: ḥanan (T 109) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: hnn (T 109)
- Biblical Aramaic: ḥanan (T 109)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḥanūn, ḥannān (HALOT 333)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ḥnn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 86) (gloss withheld)

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