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Phoenician
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *biʾrāt- (“wells”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew בְּאֵרוֹת (bəʾērōṯ). Compare Akkadian 𒁁𒊒𒋫 (/bērūta/, “Beirut”) and Egyptian brt (“Beirut”), both borrowed from a Canaanite language ancestral to Phoenician in the 2nd millennium BC.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
𐤁𐤓𐤕 (brt /bērūt/)
- Beirut
Descendants