OLE

šamnu 'oil, olive oil'

𐙖OLE*3026 entries
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Reading
none proposed
Confidence
Probable
Root
*šam(a)n- ‘fat (also oil)’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
#46 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎌𐎎𐎐šmnšmn ‘oil; fat, butter’ (DULAT 815)
  • Hebrewšemenšemen ‘oil, fat’ (HALOT 1567)
  • Akkadianšamnušamnu ‘oil, fat, cream’ (CAD Š/1 321)
  • Phoenician𐤔𐤌𐤍šmnšmn ‘oil’ (Krahmalkov 470)

Attestations6 cited

  1. HT 12QA-TI-DA-TE OLE+DI 5
  2. HT 14OLE+MI 3
  3. HT 28aOLE+U 2
  4. HT 50aOLE+KI ¹⁄₄
  5. HT 100OLE+U 2 ≈ ¹⁄₆
  6. ZA 18aOLE+KI ?

Commentary

A commodity logogram, oil: 21 standalone occurrences; Linear B uses it too. šamnu ‘oil, olive oil’: Heb. šemen, Ug. šmn, Akk. šamnu, the root of *308, the pressed-oil derivative, of which OLE is the base. Its compounds are the richest of any commodity, eighteen types: OLE+KI standard, OLE+MI anointing, OLE+DI honey-infused, OLE+TA fine grade, OLE+NE libation, OLE+RI aromatic.

On the 3D inscriptions4 inscriptions

HT 121Haghia Triada…OLEPE Wy 5PetrasOLE *307…HT 116bHaghia TriadaOLEHT 114aHaghia Triada…OLE
Linear A Lexicon