▪ From Aram
ḥānūṯā ‘wineshop, tavern’, often derived from Pers
ḫān, but accord. to Nöldeke rather cognate with Hbr
miḥᵃnäʰ ‘encampment’, from a Sem root *ḤNW/Y ‘to bend, bow, be curved, arched ceiling’ – Fraenkel1886: 172.
▪ Also attested as ‘burial chamber’,
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hence prob. the (EgAr) ↗
ḥānūtī ‘corpse washer; undertaker, gravedigger’.
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