# NI-PI (nīb) > fruit (commodity) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: nīb - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*nīb-]() 'fruit' 1, 'to sprout, prosper' 2 - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: NI (ni) · PI (pi) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: nîḇ, ketiv nôḇ 'fruit': nîḇ śᵉpātayim 'fruit of the lips', Is 57:19 (HALOT 696) - Jewish Aramaic: *nôḇāʾ* — nôḇāʾ 'fruit' (HALOT 696) ## Attestations - [KN Wc 26](): NI-PI — fruit, the thing received ## Commentary KN Wc 26, a roundel (CMS X 120): RU-JA Ruya on face a, NI-PI on face b, intact and undotted (GORILA II 85); Younger enters face b in the logogram column. The thing received against the receiver. nīb 'fruit': Heb. nîb 'fruit' (Isa 57:19; HALOT 696); NI writes nī, PI the b. Rival: NI, the fig sign, with PI written beside it. Weak point: the Knossos findspot is queried (Søyen Collection, formerly Erlenmeyer; Ferrara, Montecchi and Valério 2022, 103–104). One attestation. ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT - Ferrara, Silvia; Montecchi, Barbara; Valério, Miguel (2022), The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: A Palaeographic and Structural Approach. Pasiphae,16,Fabrizio Serra Editore,81–109 - HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln - GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NI-PI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.