cf. [[wa-na-so-i]]
Definitions
Hooker 1979: lord, applying to both chieftains and gods
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: the king, cf. ἄ
Wiktionary: king, lord
Homeric Greek
Iliad II.104: Ἑρμείας
Iliad II.284, II.360: ἄ
Iliad II.403, II.613, III.81, III.455, IV.148, IV.255, IV.336, V.38, V.268, V.311, VI.33: ἄ
Iliad V.105: ἄ
Iliad VII.23, VII.38: ἄ
Variants
wa-na-ka-te
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: dative of wa-na-ka
wa-na-ke-te
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: variant spelling of wa-na-ka-te
wa-na-ka-to
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: genitive of wa-na-ka
Homeric Greek
Iliad II.370, IV.290: πόλις Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος 'city of king Priam'
Iliad II.620:
Iliad II.725: Φιλοκτήταο ἄνακτος 'king Philoctetes'
Iliad IV.420: ἐ
Iliad VI.450: Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος 'king Priam's'
Iliad VII.8:
wa-na-ka-te-ro
cf. po-ku-te-ro
Hooker 1979: descriptive adjective, contextually ambiguous
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: 'of the king, royal', cf. ἄ
Adrados 1969: attached to the service of the god
Palaeolexicon: palace, house of the king
wa-na-ka-te-ra
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: nominative plural neuter or feminine of wa-na-ka-te-ro
Additional Homeric Greek
See also Homeric Greek sections under each Variant.
Iliad II.405:
Iliad V.545: πολέεςς᾽ ἄνδρεσσιν ἄνακτα 'king over many men' (accusative)
References
Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez, 1969 Minos 10 "Te-re-ta wa-na-ka-te-ro y los anaktotelestai"
Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek
Homer, 2003 Iliad (trans. A.T. Murray, ed. William F. Wyatt)
Hooker, James T. 1979 Kadmos Band 18 Heft 2 "The wanax in Linear B texts" p. 100-111