# \*tīrāṯ- 'new wine, must, grape juice'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: new wine, must
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/t/S26_new_wine_must_grape_juice.md

## In Linear A

- [\*131B](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*131B/index.md>) (tirōšu): must, new wine (unfermented or partially fermented grape juice) — commodity logogram
- [DU-RE-ZA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RE-ZA-SE/index.md>) (turēṯa-se): for the must, new wine (terminative -SE); at Khania with the article, A-DU-RE-ZA ha-tīrāṯ 'the must'; rival √d-r-š 'demand, requisition'

## 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).

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: trṯ (DULAT 867) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: trš (Krahmalkov 499); trš (T 345) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: tīrōš (HALOT 1727; Deut 7:13, Hos 2:10) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: mqny htršm, CIS I 5522.2 (T 345) (gloss withheld)

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