𐤐𐤔𐤕
Punic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Hebrew פֵּשֶׁת (pēšeṯ, “flax; linen”), פִּשְׁתָּה (pištā́, “flax”), Ugaritic 𐎔𐎘𐎚 (pṯt, “linen”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (6th BCE Punic): IPA(key): /pistʰ/
- (2nd BCE Late Punic): IPA(key): /pistʰ/
- (2nd CE Neo-Punic): IPA(key): /fisθ/
Noun
[edit]𐤐𐤔𐤕 (pšt /pišt/) m
References
[edit]- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 406
- Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000) Phoenician-Punic Dictionary (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 90), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies Leuven, →ISBN, page 408
- 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[2], volume 70, number 1, page 102