𐤕𐤉𐤍

Punic

FWOTD – 16 July 2021

Etymology

From Phoenician *𐤕𐤉𐤍 (*tyn) or *𐤕𐤀𐤍 (*tʾn), from Proto-Semitic *tiʔin-.

Pronunciation

Uncertain.

Noun

𐤕𐤉𐤍 (tyn) m

1. fig
   • 1962, Herbert Donner, Wolfgang Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (overall work in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, lines B 5 of number 76 on page 20, from Carthage, which is reproduced No. 241 line 13 in Julius Euting’s 1883 Sammlung der Carthagischen Inschriften, also interpreted and transcribed by Joseph Derenbourg Sur les offrandes de prémices in Journal asiatique February–March 1874 pages 204–227, with that last page the Hebrew transcription and Latin translation, who vocalizes it as tayin, whereas Müller, David Heinrich (1887) “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, page 26 təyēn:

     𐤅𐤕𐤉𐤍 𐤉𐤀 𐤋𐤁𐤍

     wtyn yʾ lbn

     and figs, fair, white