𐤀𐤁

Ammonite

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

Noun

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb)

1. father

Edomite

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

Noun

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb)

1. father

Moabite

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

Noun

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb)

1. father

Phoenician

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *bV-.

Alternative forms

• 𐤁 (b /⁠bi⁠/)

Preposition

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /ab, eb/)

1. in

Descendants

• Punic: 𐤁 (b /⁠bi⁠/), 𐤁𐤉 (by /⁠bi⁠/), 𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /⁠eb, ab⁠/), ef-

Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔab/

Noun

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /ab/)

1. father

Related terms

• 𐤀𐤁𐤕 (ʾbt, “fatherhood”)

Descendants

• Punic: 𐤀𐤁 (ʾb)

References

• Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2001) A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 227
• 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, page 102

Punic

Etymology 1

From Phoenician 𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /⁠ab⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /ʾab/)

1. father

Etymology 2

Preposition

𐤀𐤁 (ʾb /ab, eb/)

1. Alternative form of 𐤁 (b /⁠bi⁠/)

References

• Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2001) A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 227
• 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