zajtu

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Variant: zaʾitu
Meanings:
olive
de:German: Deutsch Olive
fr:French: Français olive
ar:Arabic: العربية زيتون
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Plants; domesticated plants; oils and fats; materia magica, medica et sacra
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed < Aram.Aramaic < zajt “olive” (see Finkel 2000, 151).
3Attestations

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina 2 BÁN ša šaman za-a-a-it tušabšal Fs. Lambert, 152 no. 2: 12. new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) GAB.LÀL u šaman za-ʾi-tum (‖ za-aʾ-it) ta-sa-la-qu … ina GAB.LÀL šaman za-ʾi-tum ta-sa-la-qa napšaltu ša rašūtu Fs. Lambert, 155 no. 4A (‖ B): 1, 6 “you boil up wax and olive oil … you boil (it) up in the wax and olive oil as a salve for rašūtu”. See also CAD S 93 sub salāqu A c with emend. of za-ʾi-tum to ṣa-aḫ-tum “pressed”.

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina Ì.GIŠ (‖ šam-an) za-aʾ-it tušabšal Fs. Lambert, 149 no. 1A(‖ C): 11 “you boil (it) in olive oil”. new

Discussion

Used consistently in LB medical texts in place of sirdu “olive (tree)”.

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