𐤋𐤔𐤍

Phoenician

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *lišān-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /liʃaːn/

Noun

𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /lišān/)

1. tongue

Punic

Alternative forms

• 𐤀𐤋𐤔𐤍 (ʾlšn /⁠alšān⁠/)

Etymology

From Phoenician 𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /⁠lišān⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *lišān-.

Pronunciation

• (6^th BCE Punic): IPA^(key): /lisaːn/
• (2^nd BCE Late Punic): IPA^(key): /lisaːn/
• (2^nd CE Neo-Punic): IPA^(key): /lisoːn/

Noun

𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /lišān/)

1. tongue

Derived terms

• 𐤋𐤔𐤍 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (lšn ʾlp /⁠lišān ʾalp⁠/, “oxtongue, bugloss”)

References

• Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000) Phoenician-Punic Dictionary (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 90), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies Leuven, →ISBN, page 264
• Steiner, Richard C. (2001) “Albounout “Frankincense” and Alsounalph “Oxtongue”: Phoenician-Punic Botanical Terms with Prothetic Vowels from an Egyptian Papyrus and a Byzantine Codex”, in Orientalia‎^[1], volume 70, number 1, pages 97–103