ἀθνού <Egyptian; Roman period>
👉 ἀθνού (vv.ll. ἀθνου, ἀθνον, ἀφθνου) – an Egyptian gloss with the meaning of φοῖνιξ ‘date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)’ (Dsc. 4.43 RV).
⚠ Dsc. 4.43 RV: φοῖνιξ · (...) Αἰγύπτιοι ἀθνού. – “Phoinix (date palm): (...) the Egyptians (call it) athnu”.
🅔 An Egyptian word without a certain etymology; cf. the Egyptian bnr (var. bnj) ‘date’, bnr.t ‘date palm’, Demotic bn(e).(t) ‘date(s)’, bne.t ‘date palm’, Coptic ⲃⲛⲛⲉ (S, A, L, M), ⲃⲉⲛⲓ (B, F), ⲃⲏⲛ(ⲛ)ⲓ (F) f. ‘date, date palm’. Cf. φοῖνιξ 1.
📖 Data: CD: 40; CDD: s.v. bn(e).(t) and bne.t; CDO: s.v. ⲃⲛⲛⲉ; DG: 116–117; DLE: I, 135; GHÄD: 271; KH: 25 and 494; PL: 319; WÄS: I, 461-462.