𐤐𐤔𐤕

Punic

Etymology

Compare Hebrew פֵּשֶׁת (pēšeṯ, “flax; linen”), פִּשְׁתָּה (pištā́, “flax”), Ugaritic 𐎔𐎘𐎚 (pṯt, “linen”).

Pronunciation

• (6^th BCE Punic): IPA^(key): /pistʰ/
• (2^th BCE Late Punic): IPA^(key): /pistʰ/
• (2^th CE Neo-Punic): IPA^(key): /fisθ/

Noun

𐤐𐤔𐤕 (pšt /pišt/) m

1. flax
2. linen

References

• 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