tījatu
DRAFT
Meanings:
(a medicinal and culinary plant)
de:German: Deutsch (eine Heil- und Gewürzpflanze)
fr:French: Français (une plante à usage médicinal et culinaire)
Distribution: MB onward(s)MB onward(s): Middle Babylonian onwards (ca. 1600 BCE onwards), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: ú
KU.NU.LUḪ.ḪA
, ú
KU.NU.LUḪ
Etymology: Inherited (?) Note also in Rabbinic Aramiac tīʾā (or also tīʿā) mentioned in Van Soldt 1990, 348f. (see Löw 1924, 125f.), which refers according to most commentators to “crowfoot” even though some “claim that it is infact Asa foetida”.
Discussion
In DAB 357–359, nuḫurtu and tījatu are assumed “as forms of Asa foetida.” Stol 2025, 320 argues that tījatu (úKU(.)NU.LUḪ.ḪA and perhaps also NU.LUḪ) might represent the root of nuḫurtu (úNU.LUḪ.ḪA) “Ferula assa-foetida” (Germ. “Asant”). Note that the term is often referred to as Asafoetida even though the word alone (or the variant Asa foetida) refers to the resin of the plant.