Proto-Semitic root

*bVṣ-

‘(a bird)’

di Mino’s gloss: a kind of bird

In Linear A1 entry

PI-SAPīsapersonal name, '(a bird)', Akk. būṣuSpeculativeSemitic2

Notes

CAD B 349 holds the bird apart from būṣu B ‘hyena’ and calls its late equation with iṣṣūr ḫurri ‘partridge(?)’ (CAD I/J 207) insufficient to identify it.

Reflexes1 language

East Semitic1

Akkadianbūṣu CPN Bu-ṣu-um, Bu-ṣa-a, Bu-ṣi-ia (OB), Bu-ū-ṣu (NB) (CAD B 349)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.