Where does “ܦܐ” come from?

ܦܐ (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic) comes from Phoenician 𐤐, from Phoenician 𐤐𐤉, from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.

ܦܐ (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic): pe the seventeenth letter of the Assyrian alphabet and Syriac script

Definitions

  1. pe the seventeenth letter of the Assyrian alphabet and Syriac script

Ancestry of “ܦܐ”, step by step

ܦܐ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Phoenician 𐤐

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Phoenician𐤐mouth
2Phoenician𐤐𐤉mouth
3Proto-Semiticpay-the mouth

via Arabic فَـ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicفَـ
Every word from Proto-Semitic pay-