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▪ For Fraenkel, the word is clearly of Aram origin (as direct source, at least); Klein says this is “probably” so.
▪ Rolland2014a: »Pour Rajki, le mot, qui a des cognats en Akk, en Hbr et en Aram, serait d’origine Sem, mais l’existence du Skr tuda permet d’en douter. Quant au Pers tūt ou tūṯ, il est de même difficile de savoir s’il est d’origine Skr ou Sem.«

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▪ Akk tuttu (CAD), pBiblHbr tūṯ (Klein1987), Aram Syr tūṯā (Klein1987, Brockelmann1895) ‘mulberry’

▪ Fraenkel1886: The variation tūt ~ tūṯ is a clear indication of an Aram origin. Nişanyan, too, thinks the source is Aram Syr tūṯā.
▪ CAD: Akk tuttu ‘mulberry tree’ is a foreign word (Nişanyan: from Aram).
▪ Klein1987: pBiblHbr tūṯ ‘mulberry’, probably from Aram tūṯā, whence also Ar tūt

▪ Tu dut: 1680 Meninski, Thesaurus : tūt… ak ve tatlü tūt, kara tūt…, tūtı wahşī – Nişanyan_24Aug2013. – The word is also part of the composite n. ahududu ‘raspberry’: 1892 Tıngır & Sinapian, Iṣṭılaḥāt Luġāti : [Fr] framboise = [Tu] ahu tutu, böğürtlen, ağaç çileği Nişanyan_24Jun2015.¹

1. The first part, ahu ‘gazelle’ is from Pers āhū, from oPers āhūk ‘id.’ = Sogd āsūk ‘id.’ = Av āsu ‘quick, fast’. First attested 1330 in ʕĀşıḳ Paşa, Ġarīb-nāme : dürr ṣādefde didiler āhūda nāf / gönül erenlerdedir cahilde lāf – Nişanyan_11Aug2015.

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²tūt تُوت

√TWT

first month of Coptic calender (mid-September to mid-October) – WehrCowan1979, BadawiHinds1986.

▪ Rolland2014a: From BohCopt thwout [ErmanGrapow1921 θoout ], from Thoth [Eg ḏḥwtj ], name of the god of knowledge, inventor of writing.

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See section CONC, above.

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tūtiyā تُوتِيَا , var. tūtiyāʔ تُوتِيَاء , tūtiyaẗ تُوتِيَة

√TWT, TWTY

zinc – WehrCowan1979.

Via Pers probably from an Ind language, cf. Skr tutthā ‘blue vitriol (cupric sulfate), used as eye drops’. The Ar word is the source of words for ‘zinc (oxide)’ in some Eur langs.

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▪ Brockelmann1895: Syr tūtiyā ‘antimon’

▪ from Pers tūtiyā, from Skr tutthā – en.wiktionary (07Jan2016)#tutty.

▪ Fr tut(h)ie 1256 tutie, 1432 tuthie. From Ar tūtiyāʔ «tutie, zinc, oxyde de zinc», probably itself a loan from an Ind lang, cf. Skr tutthā «vitriol bleu (sulfate de cuivre), utilisé comme collyre» – TLF.
▪ Engl tutty (a powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing) from Fr tutie (cf. also Sp tutia, atutia), from Lat tutia, from Ar tūtiyāʔ, from Pers tūtiyā, from Skr tutthā – en.wiktionary (07Jan2016).²
▪ Lokotsch1927#2120: Ar tūtiyāʔ ‘zinc, zinc oxide’ [perh. from an Ind lang, ZDMG L: 650; cf. also Grk toutía; in the East formerly often used as remedy against eye diseases], also Tu; hence Rum tutea ‘zink oxide’, Span Port atutia, Cat tutia, Fr tutie, tuthie ‘id.’; Pol tucyja ‘Art Zinkkalk’; Engl tutty ‘zink oxide’ [used for cleaning]. – From Pers tūtyānāk ‘like tutia’ [s. De Sacy ChrAr III, 44:2; 4529/442, on Ar tūtiyāʔ ] developed the Engl tutenag ‘Indian zinc; alloy from copper, nickel and zinc, for cutlery’; Fr toutenague, tintenague, Port tutenaga ‘id’.

2. But Engl tutenag ‘crude zinc’, (directly?) from Tamil thuthanaagam ‘raw zinc’ – OxEnglDict.

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