OLIV

zayt 'olive (fruit)'

𐙋OLIVAB1222 entries
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Reading
none proposed
Confidence
Probable
Root
*zayt- ‘olive, olive tree’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
#53 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎇𐎚ztzt ‘olive; olive tree; olive grove’ (DULAT 984)
  • Hebrewzayitzayit ‘olive tree, olive’ (HALOT 268)
  • Phoenician𐤆𐤕ztzt ‘olive(s)’ (Krahmalkov 174)
  • Arabiczaytzayt ‘olive oil’ (Lane 1274)

Attestations18 cited

  1. HT 50aOLIV 3
  2. HT 91OLIV ≈ ¹⁄₆olives
  3. HT 101OLIV 1 ¹⁄₄
  4. HT 116aOLIV 3
  5. HT 123+124a3DKI-TA-I OLIV 31olives
  6. HTW 231aOLIVolive fruit
  7. ZA 6aOLIV 15olives
  8. ARKH 3aOLIV 3 ¹⁄₅olives

Commentary

Commodity ideogram for the olive fruit, apart from OLE šamnu ‘oil’, a logogram Linear B shares. OLIV and OLE stand on the same tablets with separate quantities (HT 50a, HT 101, HT 116a), fruit beside product. HT 123+124a gives OLIV 31 beside *308, pressed oil, 8¼, a record of olive processing; on HT W 231a OLIV alone labels a sealed commodity; OLIV+TU is a subtype, three times. zayt ‘olive’: Heb. zayit ‘olive tree, olive’ (HALOT 268–269), Ug. zt ‘olive; olive tree; olive grove’ (DULAT 984), Arb. zayt ‘olive oil’, zaytūn ‘olive’ (Lane 1274). OLIV stands alone 25 times on 18 documents from Haghia Triada, Arkhanes, Tylissos and Zakros.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 123+124aHaghia Triada5×OLIVOLIV……OLIVOLIV……OLIV
Linear A Lexicon