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Usually occurs in the phrase pīru ša šīri “… of meat” (Jursa 1999, 66). No etymology can be suggested.

No etymology can be suggested.

Or pirru. No definitive etymology can be suggested.

Var. pīlu, pēru

Var. pišannu. From Sum. PISAN ‘basket’.

Possibly the same lexeme as pisannu ‘basket’.

Or pizmu. No definitive etymology can be suggested. Could be derived from pasāmu ‘to cover up, to veiľ (AHw., Draffkorn Kilmer 1984:75, fn. 22). Alternatively (with Draffkorn Kilmer 1984:77, fn. 26), may be compared with Jewish Aramaic pzm (pa.) ‘to speak or sing in one’s turn’ (Jastrow 1150), Rabbinic Hbr. pizmōn ‘a poem with a refrain for congregational response’ (ibid.). Within this approach, pizmu could be of WS origin which would agree with its late attestation.

Cf. perhaps Tgr. fäššämä ‘to stink’, Tna. fässämä ‘to become pale, to lose colour due to illness; to fade’.

Var. pisnaḳu, pasnaḳu. No etymology can be suggested.

Probably an Aramaic loanword (Watanabe 1987:204). Cf. Syr. pašpušā ‘cimex’, pešpšā ‘cimex; ricinus’.