Proto-Semitic root

*ḫatān-

‘bridegroom, son-in-law; marriage alliance partner’

di Mino’s gloss: son-in-law, bridegroom, kin by marriage

In Linear A1 entry

*21F-TU-NEhatunebridegroom, son-in-lawCandidateSemitic33D

Notes

Hebrew and Aramaic ḥ answers *ḫ, which Akkadian, Ugaritic, Taanach ḫa-at-nu-tam, Arabic and ESA keep. In the Amarna letters one king calls another aḫija ḫa-ta-ni-ia ‘my brother, my son-in-law’ (EA 21:3; CAD Ḫ, 148). Hebrew ḥatan dāmīm ‘bridegroom of blood’ (Exod 4:24–26).

Reflexes10 languages

East Semitic1

Akkadianḫatānu (CAD Ḫ, 148; AHw. 336)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic6

Ugariticḫtn, /ḫ-t-n/ (DULAT 408–409)/ḫatnu/ (UVST 130)gloss withheld
Hebrewḥātān (חָתָן), ḥōtēn, hitḥattēn (HALOT 364–365)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaicḥatnā ‘bridegroom’ (Jastrow 514)
CanaaniteTaanach ḫa-at-nu-tam (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 29, fn. 546)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicḥatnā (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 29)gloss withheld
Amoriteḫatanum (Gelb AS 21, 21)ḫatn- (Huffmon APNM 205)gloss withheld

Arabic2

Arabicḫatan (خَتَن) 'circumcisedson-in-law' (Lane 703–704)
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ḫtn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 82)gloss withheld

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South ArabianSab ḫtn, Hdr ḫtn (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 29; Sabaweb lemma 8307)gloss withheld

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