likely represents an extension of a Lallwort for “father,” still preserved in Ugaritic as ˀad
hard to decide whether the element *ˀad- is an independent Canaanite formation or an early loanword from a non-Semitic source, cf. Hit. atta- (Friedrich 38), Hur. attai (Laroche 63), Sum. ad(-da) (PSD A₃ 9, with several orthographic variants). At any rate, both the extension in -ān- and the (presumably derived) meaning “lord” must be regarded as PC innovations (Garbini 1984:94). Although one cannot exclude that *-ān- is an adaptation of the Hurrian determinate form attani (cf. Sanmartín 1977:271)