Proto-Semitic root
*tiʾin-
‘fig-tree’
di Mino’s gloss: fig, fig tree
Record 2324 ↗ · SED semet 2574 · Basis: SED
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Harari tīn, tīni (Leslau 1963, 150) is from Arabic tīn ‘fig’, of Aramaic origin; Oromo tīni and Somali tin have it too (Leslau 1963, 150).
Reflexes12 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiantittu, tiʔittu, pl. tīnātu lex., tiʔu SB (AHw 1363)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticti-ì-tum (Kogan 2011, 204; VE 368a; Krebernik 1983, 14), /tiʾittum/ < /tiʾintum/ (Krebernik 1983, 14 n. 49)
Northwest Semitic9
- Mandaic Aramaictina (DM 486)gloss withheld
- Hebrewtǝʔēnā (HALOT 1675)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaictēnǝtā (HALOT 1675)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicteʔttā, pl. tēʔnē (HALOT 1675)gloss withheld
- Phoeniciantyn (T 339)gloss withheld
- AramaicCPArm. tynʾ (HALOT 1675)
- Ugaritic/tiʾnatu/ (UVST 184)gloss withheld
- CanaaniteAmm. tʔn (DNWSI 1201)gloss withheld
- Punictyn (DNWSI 1212)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabictīn- (coll.) ‘fig’, tīnu-l-ʔafranǯi ‘a kind of cactus’ (BK 1, 213)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.