𐤔

𐤔	U+10914, 𐤔 PHOENICIAN LETTER SHIN

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Phoenician

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Translingual

Letter

𐤔 (š)

The 21st letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.

Phoenician

Etymology 1

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, Russian ш (š), Aramaic ܫ. More at Shin.

Letter

𐤔 (š)

The twenty-first letter of the Phoenician abjad, called shin.

Etymology 2

Compare with Arabic شَاة (šāh), Ugaritic 𐎘𐎀𐎚 (ṯảt), and Hebrew שֶׂה.

Noun

(š)

sheep

References

^ “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].

[1] “shin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[2] 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].

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