𐤋𐤔𐤍

Phoenician

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *lišān-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.soːn/

Noun

𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn)

  1. tongue

Punic

Alternative forms

  • 𐤀𐤋𐤔𐤍 (ʾlšn /⁠alšān⁠/)

Etymology

From Phoenician 𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn /⁠lišān⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *lišān-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.soːn/

Noun

𐤋𐤔𐤍 (lšn)

  1. tongue

Derived terms

  • 𐤋𐤔𐤍 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (lšn ʾlp /⁠li.soːn ʔalp⁠/, “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[1], volume 70, number 1, pages 97–103
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