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While early Sumerian writing was highly logographic, there was a tendency towards more phonetic spelling in the Neo-Sumerian period. [131] Consistent syllabic spelling was employed when writing down the Emesal dialect (since the usual logograms would have been read in Emegir by default), for the purpose of teaching the language and often in ...
The Sumerian cuneiform sign by itself was originally an ideogram for the Sumerian word an ('sky' or 'heaven'); [2] its use was then extended to a logogram for the word diĝir ('god' or 'goddess') [3] and the supreme deity of the Sumerian pantheon Anu, and a phonogram for the syllable /an/.
Pages in category "Sumerian words and phrases" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ama-gi;
The cuneiform sign ur is a common-use sign in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts.It has multiple sub-uses in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as use for the Sumerogram (capital letter ()), UR.
In 2017, a second version of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary was released, called ePSD2. [8] The new version of the dictionary includes listings of over 12,000 Sumerian words, phrases and names, occurring in almost 100,000 distinct forms a total of over 2.27 million times. The corpus covers about 100,000 of the 134,000+ known Sumerian texts.
Evolution of anthropomorphic cuneiforms, Lugal appears in the right columns. There are different theories regarding the meaning of the title lugal in 3rd-millennium Sumer. . Some scholars believe that a ruler of an individual city-state was usually called ensi, and a ruler who headed a confederacy or larger dominion composed of several cities, perhaps even the whole of Sumer, was a lu
An = Anum, a Sumerian god synonym-list on six tablets thought to have originated during the late Kassite era [10] [CT XXIV 20-50 [p 7]] [p 8] An = Anu ša amēli , "An is the Anu of man", undoubtedly a Kassite product according to Lambert , an Akkadian list of around 160 divine names [ 10 ] [CT XXV, pl. 47, 48, [ p 9 ] CT XXVI, pl. 50 [ p 10 ...
Of the 51 uses of NIN, the other major usage is for the Akkadian word eninna (nin as in e-nin-na, but also other variants). Eninna is the adverb "now", but it can also be used as a conjunction, or as a segue-form (a transition form). [citation needed] [clarification needed]