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Phoenician
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sinaitic . The association of "tooth" (see Proto-Semitic *Ε‘inn- (βtoothβ)) with this letter was the result of folk etymology and its shape resembling a tooth. The letter originally depicted a composite bow, which usually has the tips curving away from the archer when unstrung.[1][2]
Related to Classical Syriac ά«, Arabic Ψ΄ (Ε‘), Hebrew Χ©, Russian Ρ (Ε‘), Aramaic ά«. More at Shin.
Letter
π€ (Ε‘)
- The twenty-first letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.
Descendants
- Ancient Greek: Ξ£ (S), Ο (s)
- Aramaic: π‘ββ
See also
- Phoenician script letters (script appendix): π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€ , π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€, π€ [edit]
Etymology 2
Compare with Arabic Ψ΄ΩΨ§Ψ© (Ε‘Δh), Ugaritic πππ (αΉ―αΊ£t), and Hebrew Χ©ΦΆΧΧ.
Noun
π€ (Ε‘)
References
- ^ βshinβ, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, βISBN.
- ^ Albright, W. F. (1948). "The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Sinai and their Decipherment". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 110 (110): 6β22 [p. 15].