𐤔
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Translingual[edit]
Letter[edit]
𐤔 (š) 
- The 21st letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.
Phoenician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Semitic *šinn- (“tooth”). The association of "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, Aramaic ܫ. More at Shin.
Letter[edit]
𐤔 (š)
- The twenty-first letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
(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].