amurdinnum
Akkadian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Henry Ludwig Fr. Lutz opted to read the sign ๐ฏ with the common value แธซar instead of mur, requiring one occurrence containing mu-ur- as referring to another plant, and deems the remainder to render Arabic *ุฃูุฎูู ุฃูุฑูุถู (*สaแธตลซ สarแธin, literally โearth brotherโ).[1] This seems out of question since we realize that the modern value [dหค], now transcribed superficially similarly แธ, was in antiquity a voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ษฎหค]. Neither afford ู ูุฑูุฏ (mard, โtoothbrush-tree fruitsโ) thorns, as behoves by the Akkadian descriptions, or Arabic in general any transferrable ending. The structure hints to an Anatolian loanword with a privative a.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /a.murหdin.num/
Noun
[edit]amurdinnum m (El-Amarna, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian)
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- Synonym: ๐๐ (aลกฤgum)
- a disease of the eyes
Alternative forms
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References
[edit]- ^ Lutz, Henry Ludwig Frederick (1950) โThe Name of the Jujube Tree in Babyloniaโ, in Journal of the American Oriental Societyโ[1], volume 70, number 2, pages 108โ109
- ^ Haas, Volkert (2003) Materia Magica et Medica Hethitica. Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient (in German), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, , page 244
Further reading
[edit]- Thompson, Reginald Campbell (1941) Cyril John Gadd, editor, A Dictionary of Assyrian Botanyโ[2], London: The British Academy, published 1949, page 330
- โamurdinnuโ, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)โ[3], volume 1, A, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1968, pages 90bโ91a
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