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q n ʾ

23 lemmas · 7 languages
hamzatedContains ʾ (glottal stop) in position 1 or 3. Glottal stops assimilate or elide in many inflections, producing irregular surface forms.T Exod.20.5
Themes:pen·3cane·2reed·2nest·2rookery·2
POS shape:noun·13verb·8adj·2

This root is attested across 7 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.

Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family

*q-n-ʾProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewקַנָּאק נ אjealous, zealous (epithet for God)
Punic𐤒𐤍𐤀𐤒 𐤍 𐤀cane, reed
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicקנאק נ אnest, rookery
Syriacܩܢܝܐܩ ܢ ܐreed, cane, stem
Assyrian NAܩܵܢܹܐܩ ܢ ܐto possess a farm animal as one raising it
Arabic
Arabicقَنَأَق ن ءto redden
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezቀንአትቀ ነ አgalbanum or stacta

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Punic

irregular reflexpun · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 2 lemmas
  • nouninferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Gen 31:18Wiktionary ↗
    nest, rookery
  • verbinferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Gen 31:18Wiktionary ↗
    to get, to gain, to obtain

Classical Syriac

syc · 5 lemmas
  • qanyānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    reed, cane, stem
    From Akkadian qanûm.
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    possession, property, chattel
    From the root ܩ ܢ ܐ related to possessing.
  • qennānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    nest, rookery
    Compare Arabic كِنّ (kinn) and Hebrew קֵן (qēn).
  • daqnānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    beard
    From Proto-Semitic *ḏaḳan- (“beard”). Compare Arabic ذَقَن (ḏaqan) and Hebrew זָקָן (zāqān).
    2 derivations
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    dish, plate, platter
    From Ancient Greek λεκάνη (lekánē). Compare Arabic لَكَن (lakan).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 3 lemmas
  • qānēverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to possess a farm animal as one raising it
    Inherited from Aramaic קְנַא (qənā) with the third and fourth definitions borrowed from Classical Syriac; compare Hebrew קָנָה (kaná, “to buy, obtain”).
  • qinyānānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    possession, property, chattel
    Inherited from Aramaic [Term?]. Of the noun pattern 1i23ānā.
    2 derivations
  • qnē lamṭānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    marker, marker pen, felt-tip pen (pen with a thick tip made of felt)

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas
  • kanáadjattestedT Exod.20.5Wiktionary ↗
    jealous, zealous (epithet for God)
  • kinéverbattestedT Exod.20.5Wiktionary ↗
    to envy
    Related to Arabic قَنَأَ (qanaʔa, “to become red”), as feelings of anger or envy are associated with being expressed by a reddening of the face. In a more positive sense, jealousy is seen as being concerned or eager for someone or something, out of which springs the third meaning of this word; for a parallel…
    2 derivations
  • kin'ánounattestedT Num.5.14Wiktionary ↗
    Envy, jealousy, covetousness.
  • kanáyadjattestedWiktionary ↗
    zealot, fanatical
  • hitkanéverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to get jealous
  • kana'útnounattested✡︎ m. Men. 1:1Wiktionary ↗
    extremism, fanaticism
    From the noun קנא (kaná), from the verb קינא (kiné) of the root ק־נ־א (k-n-').
  • kinéverbinferredT Exod.20.5Wiktionary ↗
    defective spelling of קינא
  • l'kaneverbinferredWiktionary ↗
    to-infinitive of קינא

Arabic

ar · 3 lemmas
  • qanaʔaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to redden
  • qāniʔverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    active participle of قَنَأَ (qanaʔa)
  • qunūʔnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of قَنَأَ (qanaʔa) (form I)

Ge'ez

gez · 1 lemma
  • ḳännəʾätnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    galbanum or stacta
    From the root of ቀነየ (ḳänäyä, “to acquire”) imagining the resin or oil acquired from the relevant plants. Possibly a phono-semantic matching of Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi) or directly its Egyptian etymon or the Aramaic descendant, with respect to its descendant Amharic ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling…

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with q-n-ʾ

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