SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
PArm
*pušk- - handbreadth
(EDA I)
Words
Akkadian
pušku
- span
(CAD P 542, AHw. 883)
Or pusku.
The Aramaic origin, first proposed for this word by von Soden 1968:263, seems highly probable.
Official Aramaic
pšk
- handbreadth
(DNWSI 946)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
pšk
- handbreadth
(DJPA 453)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
puškā
- handbreadth
(DJBA 894)
Syriac
peškā
- handbreadth
(LSyr. 612, SL 1261)