Editing Pyrgi Tablets (section)

==Phoenician vocabulary==

Much of the well known vocabulary (from the glossary by A. Bloch, 1890, unless otherwise indicated) of the text is, of course, religious, including ''rb-t''  "Lady," ''ʻštrt''  the goddess "Astarte," ''qdš''  "holy," ''ʼlm''  "divinity," ''bt''  "temple, house," ''zbḥ''  "sacrifice," ''qbr''  "burial"; or they involve the calendar or elements of the natural world: ''ym''  "day," ''yrḥ''  "month," ''šnt''  "year(s)," ''šmš''  "sun" (in this context, also a deity), ''kbb''  "stars." Common verbs include ''šmš''  "made," ''ytn''  "placed,"  ''bn''  "built," ''mlk''  "rule, reign."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bloch |first=Armand |url=https://archive.org/details/phoenizischesglo00blocuoft/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Phoenizisches Glossar |date=1890 |publisher=Berlin, Mayer |others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}</ref> Most of the items below not covered in this list are grammatical elements, uncited claims, or reflect earlier scholarship that has now been superseded by newer studies.

Nouns in the text include: '''bt' ''', "house, temple" [Semitic '''*bayt- '''], '''kkb ''', star [Semitic '''*kabkab- '''] [hakkawkabīm/hakkawkabūm = the-stars], '''ʼlm ''', divinity [Semitic '''*ʼil- ''' "god"], '''ʼšr ''', place, '''ʻštrt ''', Astarte [Semitic  '''*ʻaṯtar- '''], '''krr ''', Churvar [calendar month] [cf. Etruscan ''Χurvar''], '''kyšryʼ ''', Caerites [a people], '''lmʼš ''', statue (But analyzed by some as the preposition ''lm'' "during" plus the relative pronoun ''ʼš'' "which"), ''mtnʼ''', gift [Semitic '''*ntn''' 'to give'], '''qbr''', burial, '''rbt''', lady [cf. Akkadian ''rābu'' "grand, large"] [rabbu, female: rabbatu ], '''šmš''', sun [Semitic '''*šamš-'''<ref>The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic. 1990. In: On language: selected writings of Joseph H. Greenberg. Ed. Keith M. Denning and Suzanne Kemmer. P.379</ref>], '''šnt''', year [šanot "years" – from: šanāt]
, '''tw''', aedicula [taw], '''yd''', hand '''ym''', day [Semitic '''*yawm-'''], '''yrḥ''', month [Semitic '''*warḥu-'''] [Canaanite: yarhu], '''zbḥ''', sacrifice

Verbs: '''mlk''', to rule, to reign [Semitic '''*mlk'''], '''ʼrš''', to raise, '''bn''', to build [ bny ] [wayyiben = [and] he built], '''bn''', to build [ bny ] [wayyiben = [and] he built], '''mlk''', to rule, to reign [Semitic '''*mlk'''], '''pʻl''', to make, to do [Semitic '''*pʻl'''], ::'''ytn''', to give [Semitic '''*[y]-ntn'''] [ya-ntin[u]] he-gives / Hebrew: yittēn

Other: '''ʼš''', which, who, that [rel.pron], '''ʼz''', this [ ha-dha? ], '''ʻl''', over, above [Semitic '''*ʻal-'''], '''b-''', in, at, with, on [Semitic '''*bi-'''], '''bn''', to build [ bny ] [wayyiben = [and] he built], '''k-''', for, since [Semitic '''*ki-'''], '''km''', like, as [ka-ma], '''l-''', to, for [Semitic '''*la-'''],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schmitz |first=Philip C. |date=1995 |title=The Phoenician Text from the Etruscan Sanctuary at Pyrgi |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/604727 |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=115 |issue=4 |pages=559–575 |doi=10.2307/604727 |issn=0003-0279}}</ref> '''[[Q-D-S|qdš]]''', holy, '''šlš''', three [Semitic '''*ṯalāṯ-'''], '''w-''', and [Semitic '''*wa-''']