# OLIV > zayt 'olive (fruit)' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: none proposed - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*zayt-]() 'olive, olive tree' - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: OLIV - Rank: #53 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎚 *zt* — zt 'olive; olive tree; olive grove' (DULAT 984) - Hebrew: *zayit* — zayit 'olive tree, olive' (HALOT 268) - Phoenician: 𐤆𐤕 *zt* — zt 'olive(s)' (Krahmalkov 174) - Arabic: *zayt* — zayt 'olive oil' (Lane 1274) ## Attestations - [HT 50a](): OLIV 3 - [HT 91](): OLIV ≈ ¹⁄₆ — olives - [HT 101](): OLIV 1 ¹⁄₄ - [HT 116a](): OLIV 3 - [HT 123+124a](): KI-TA-I OLIV 31 — olives - [HTW 231a](): OLIV — olive fruit - [ZA 6a](): OLIV 15 — olives - [ARKH 3a](): OLIV 3 ¹⁄₅ — olives - [HT 131b](): OLIV 2 — olive (fruit) - [HT 14](): OLIV 13 — olives - [HT 154a](): OLIV - [HT 21](): OLIV 1 ¹⁄₄ - [HT 44a](): OLIV 1 — olives - [HT 58](): OLIV 41 - [TY 3a](): OLIV 4 - [ZA 11a](): OLIV 2 - [ZA 11b](): I OLIV 1\[ - [ZA 18a](): OLIV ¹⁄₄ ## 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. ## Same root - [MA-TI-ZA-I-TE]() (Matiʿ-zayti) ## References - Reading: di Mino - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLIV/ 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.