Proto-Semitic root

*turs-

‘shield’ 1, ‘door-bar’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: shield; bar

Record 3789 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor

In Linear A1 entry

TU-RU-SATursaShield, Protector (invoked in formula position two)SpeculativeSemitic13D

Notes

Jastrow 1698 takes tᵉrîs from ʾ-r-s ‘bind, join’ (Jastrow 124). Not from Greek θυρεός, a derivative of θύρα ‘door’ whose sense ‘shield’ is Hellenistic (DELG 446–447). Not 1206 *daraḳ-, K0145 *mVgVn- or 3497 *gwb, the other shield words.

Reflexes3 languages

Northwest Semitic2

  • Judaic Aramaictᵉrîsā ‘shield’ 1, rendering Hebrew māgēn (Jastrow 1698)
  • Hebrewtᵉrîs (pB.) ‘shield’ 1, ‘shutter’ 2 (Jastrow 1698)

Arabic1

  • Arabicturs ‘a shield’ 1, ‘a wooden door-bar’ 2tarasa ‘he fastened, or closed, the door’ 2tatarrasa ‘he defended himself with a shield’ 1 (Lane 302)
Linear A Lexicon