𐤔
Appearance
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Phoenician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Sinaitic . The association of "tooth" (see Proto-Semitic *šinn- (“tooth”)) with this letter was the result of folk etymology and its shape resembling a tooth. The letter originally depicted a composite bow, which usually has the tips curving away from the archer when unstrung.[1][2]
Related to Classical Syriac ܫ, Arabic ش (š), Hebrew ש, Russian ш (š), Aramaic ܫ. More at Shin.
Letter
[edit]𐤔 (š)
- The twenty-first letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]- Phoenician script letters (script appendix): 𐤀, 𐤁, 𐤂, 𐤃, 𐤄, 𐤅, 𐤆, 𐤇, 𐤈, 𐤉, 𐤊, 𐤋, 𐤌, 𐤍, 𐤎, 𐤏, 𐤐, 𐤑, 𐤒, 𐤓, 𐤔, 𐤕 [edit]
Etymology 2
[edit]Compare with Arabic شَاة (šāh), Ugaritic 𐎘𐎀𐎚 (ṯảt), and Hebrew שֶׂה.
Noun
[edit]𐤔 (š)
References
[edit]- ^ “shin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Albright, W. F. (1948). "The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Sinai and their Decipherment". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 110 (110): 6–22 [p. 15].