līlum
AkkadianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Semitic *layl- (“night”). Cognate with Arabic لَيْل (layl, “nighttime”) and Biblical Hebrew לַיִל (láyil, “night”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈliː.lum/
NounEdit
līlum m (plural līlū) (Old Babylonian)
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ReferencesEdit
- “līlu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
- Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “līlum”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag