# \*ḫatān- 'bridegroom, son-in-law; marriage alliance partner'

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

- Author's gloss: son-in-law, bridegroom, kin by marriage
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B8%AB/S16_bridegroom_son_in_law_marriage_alliance_partner.md

## In Linear A

- [\*21F-TU-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*21F-TU-NE/index.md>) (hatune): bridegroom, son-in-law

## 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).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: ḫatānu (CAD Ḫ, 148; AHw. 336) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ḫtn, /ḫ-t-n/ (DULAT 408–409); /ḫatnu/ (UVST 130) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ḥātān (חָתָן), ḥōtēn, hitḥattēn (HALOT 364–365) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ḥatnā 'bridegroom' (Jastrow 514)
- Canaanite: Taanach ḫa-at-nu-tam (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 29, fn. 546) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ḥatnā (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 29) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: ḫatanum (Gelb AS 21, 21); ḫatn- (Huffmon APNM 205) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḫatan (خَتَن) 'circumcised; son-in-law' (Lane 703–704)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ḫtn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 82) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

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

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