ميس

Borrowed from Aramaic מַיְשָׁא / ܡܰܝܫܳܐ (mayšā, “nettle tree”), from Akkadian 𒄑𒈩 (mēsum), from Sumerian 𒄑𒈩 (^g̃ešmes /⁠mes⁠/), apparently also the nettle tree, contrasted with 𒄑𒈩𒈣𒃶𒈾 (musukkannum, literally “mes from Makan”), a tree from the East used for wood, apparently sissoo (Dalbergia sissoo). In Hebrew, the former is found as מַיִשׁ (mayiš, “nettle tree”), the later as מְסֻכָּן (məsukkān).

• IPA^(key): /majs/

مَيْس • (mays) m

1. nettle tree, hackberry (Celtis gen. et spp., especially Celtis australis, but locally also Celtis caucasica)

• → Spanish: almez, almeza

• “myš”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “mēsu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 10, M, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1977, pages 33–34
• “musukkannu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 10, M, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1977, pages 237–239
• Assyrian empire builders: Technical terms. Sissoo
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ميس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 224
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ميس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2748
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 416–417
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• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 53