tiāmtum
Akkadian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *tihām-at- (sea). Cognate with Arabic تِهَامَة (tihāma) and Biblical Hebrew תְּהוֹם (təhóm).
Pronunciation edit
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /tiˈaːm.tum/
Noun edit
tiāmtum f (plural tiāmātum) (from Old Akkadian on)
Alternative forms edit
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References edit
- “tâmtu”, 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), “tiāmtu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag