𐤋𐤔𐤍
Phoenician
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *lišān-.
Noun
𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /lišān/)
- tongue
Punic
Alternative forms
- 𐤀𐤋𐤔𐤍 (ʾlšn /alšān/)
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /lišān/), from Proto-Semitic *lišān-.
Pronunciation
- (6th BCE Punic): IPA(key): /lisaːn/
- (2th BCE Late Punic): IPA(key): /lisaːn/
- (2th CE Neo-Punic): IPA(key): /lisoːn/
Noun
𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /lišān/)
- 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, volume 70, issue 1, pages 97–103