salāmum

Akkadian

Root
s-l-m
2 terms

Etymology

Cognate with Arabic سَلِمَ (salima, “to be free”) and Biblical Hebrew שָׁלַם (šɔlám, “to be in covenant of peace”).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /saˈlaː.mum/

Verb

salāmum (G, i, durative isallim, perfect istallim, preterite islim, imperative silim) (from Old Babylonian on)

1.  to make peace, become reconciled, be at peace

Alternative forms

• salāmu (non-mimated)
• selēmu (Neo-Babylonian)

Cuneiform spellings

Logograms	Phonetic
𒁲 (SILIM)	𒊓𒆷𒈬 (sa-la-mu)

References

• “salāmu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “salāmu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag