būdum
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Akkadian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Eblaite 𒅤𒌈 (pu₃-tum /butum, budum/, “shoulders, the totality of the region between the two”), and compare also Arabic بَدَن (badan, “torso”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈbuː.dum/
Noun[edit]
būdum f (construct state būd or būdi, dual būdān) (Old Akkadian, Babylonian)
- shoulder (region between shoulders including the neck of both humans and animals)
- Synonym: (of animals) imittum
Alternative forms[edit]
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See also[edit]
- 𒇿 (pagrum, “body”)
References[edit]
- “būdum”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
- Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns
- Agmon, Noam & Bloch, Yigal. (2013). Statistics of Language Morphology Change: From Biconsonantal Hunters to Triconsonantal Farmers.