Brown-Driver-Briggs
(
מֵיטָב)
noun [masculine] the best, only construct
מֵיטַב and as superlative;
the best of a thing:
׳שָׂדֵהוּ וּמ ׳מ כָּרְמוֺ Exodus 22:4 (JE)
the best of his field and
the best of his vineyard (choicest fruit);
הַצּאֹן ׳מ the best of the sheep 1 Samuel 15:9,15;
הָאָרֶץ ׳בְּמ in the best of the land Genesis 47:6,11 (P).
יֻטָּה, יוּטָה see below נטה.
יְטוּר see below טוּר.
יין (√ of following; meaning unknown; regarded as loan-word by LagArmen. Stud. § 484 and others; HomZMG 1889, 653 ff.; Aufsätze, 1892, 102 compare Georgian g'wino, wine whence also (according to him) Armenian gini, Greek οῖνος, Latin vinum; compare on the other hand Jenl.c. below)