𐤒𐤔𐤀
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Punic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Akin to Arabic قِثَّاء (qiṯṯāʔ, “cucumber”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (6th BCE Punic): IPA(key): /kʼissuːʔ/
- (2th BCE Late Punic): IPA(key): /kʼissyːʔ/
- (2th CE Neo-Punic): IPA(key): /kʼissy/
Noun[edit]
𐤒𐤔𐤀 (qšʾ /qiššūʾ/) m
- cucumber
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, De Materia Medica interpolations believed to be from Pamphilos, s. v. σίκυς ἄγριος 3.59:[1]:
- σίκυς ἄγριος· [οἱ δὲ ἐλατήριον, οἱ δὲ γρυνόν, οἱ δὲ βαλ‹αν›ίς, οἱ δὲ σύγκρισις, οἱ δὲ βουβάλιον, οἱ δὲ σκορπίον,] οἱ δὲ φέρομβρον, [οἱ δὲ πευκέδανον, οἱ δὲ νότιον, Ῥωμαῖοι ἀγγουίνουμ, οἱ δὲ κουκούμερε‹μ› ῥούστικουμ, οἱ δὲ ἀγρέστεμ, Ἄφροι κισσου μεζρα (mss. var. κουσσιμεζάρ, κουσί μεζαρ).]
- síkus ágrios; [hoi dè elatḗrion, hoi dè grunón, hoi dè bal‹an›ís, hoi dè súnkrisis, hoi dè boubálion, hoi dè skorpíon,] hoi dè phérombron, [hoi dè peukédanon, hoi dè nótion, Rhōmaîoi angouínoum, hoi dè koukoúmere‹m› rhoústikoum, hoi dè agréstem, Áphroi kissou mezra (mss. var. koussimezár, kousí mezar).]
- σίκυς ἄγριος· [οἱ δὲ ἐλατήριον, οἱ δὲ γρυνόν, οἱ δὲ βαλ‹αν›ίς, οἱ δὲ σύγκρισις, οἱ δὲ βουβάλιον, οἱ δὲ σκορπίον,] οἱ δὲ φέρομβρον, [οἱ δὲ πευκέδανον, οἱ δὲ νότιον, Ῥωμαῖοι ἀγγουίνουμ, οἱ δὲ κουκούμερε‹μ› ῥούστικουμ, οἱ δὲ ἀγρέστεμ, Ἄφροι κισσου μεζρα (mss. var. κουσσιμεζάρ, κουσί μεζαρ).]
- 300 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium interpolations from interpolated versions of Dioscorides s. v. Sicydes agria:
Derived terms[edit]
- 𐤒𐤔𐤀 𐤌𐤆𐤓𐤏 (qšʾ mzrʿ /qiššūʾ məzraʿ/, “squirting cucumber”)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Berber: *ā-ɣissīm
References[edit]
- Blažek, Václav (2014) “Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia[2], volume 19, number 1, page 42
- Blench, Roger (2018) “Relating linguistic reconstructions of plant names in Berber to the archaeobotany of North Africa”, in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports[3], volume 38, number 103009, published 2021, , Table 12 and 13, pages 10 of the draft and 8 of the issue
- Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000) “QŠʾ”, in Phoenician-Punic Dictionary (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 90), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies Leuven, →ISBN, page 435
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[4] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 407