nūnum
Akkadian
editEtymology
editPossibly from Sumerian or a loanword from elsewhere into Semitic languages, also found in an Aramaic נוּנָא (nūnā) / ܢܽܘܢܳܐ (nūnā, “fish”) and Mishnaic Hebrew נוּן (nun, “fish”). (A Proto-Semitic *nūn- (“fish”) sometimes posited is hardly possible, in as much as two identical consonants linked by a vowel are a strange patterning for a Semitic noun.)
Pronunciation
edit- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈnuː.num/
Noun
editnūnum m (plural nūnū)
Alternative forms
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References
edit- “nūnu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], volume 11, N, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1980
- Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, page 611