Proto-Semitic root
*sult-
‘fine flour, semolina’
di Mino’s gloss: fine flour, semolina
Record S25 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Processed grain commodity term. Biblical attestation is concentrated in Levitical offering prescriptions (minḥā). The Phoenician form preserves the occupation title (flour-miller).
Reflexes6 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiansiltu (HALOT 758)
- Eblaiticcf. za-la-tum /Salt, sulta/ (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 198)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic3
- Phoenicianslt[s]lt ḥt[m], CIS i 145.1/2 (Krahmalkov 345)gloss withheld
- Hebrewsōlet (HALOT 758; Ex 29:2, Lev 2:1)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicsōltā (HALOT 758)
Arabic1
- Arabicsult (HALOT 758)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.