Proto-Semitic root

*tīrāṯ-

‘new wine, must, grape juice’

di Mino’s gloss: new wine, must

In Linear A2 entries

*131Btirōšumust, new wine (unfermented or partially fermented grape juice)SpeculativeSemitic4 DU-RE-ZA-SEturēṯa-sefor the must, new wine (terminative -SE)CandidateSemitic3

Notes

Distinct from *yayn- ‘wine’. The tīrōš/dāgān/yiṣhār triad is the standard OT agricultural-produce formula. Karatepe pairs Phoenician trš with šbʿ ‘abundant food’: wkn hqrt z bʿlt šbʿ wtrš ‘and may this city be(come) the possessor of abundant food and wine’, KAI 26 A III 7/9 (Krahmalkov 499).

Reflexes4 languages

Northwest Semitic4

Ugaritictrṯ (DULAT 867)gloss withheld
Phoeniciantrš (Krahmalkov 499)trš (T 345)gloss withheld
Hebrewtīrōš (HALOT 1727; Deut 7:13, Hos 2:10)gloss withheld
Punicmqny htršm, CIS I 5522.2 (T 345)gloss withheld

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