LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

ἀθάλ <Egyptian; Roman period>

👉 ἀθάλ – an Egyptian gloss with the meaning of φλόμος ἕτερος ‘mullein or candlewick (a species of the genus Verbascum L.)’ (Dsc. 4.103 RV).

⚠ Dsc. 4.103 RV: φλόμος ἕτερος· (...) Αἰγύπτιοι ἀθάλ (...). – “Phlomos heteros (mullein or candlewick): (...) the Egyptians (call it) athal (...)”. Cf. the Egyptian gloss in Ps.-Apul., Herb. 72: natal (vv.ll. nihat, neal) ‘id.’.

🅔 An Egyptian word without etymology.