lišānum
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Akkadian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Semitic *lišān- (“tongue”). Cognate with Arabic لِسَان (lisān) and Biblical Hebrew לָשׁוֹן (lɔšón).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /liˈʃaː.num/
Noun[edit]
lišānum f (plural lišānātum)
Alternative forms[edit]
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Related terms[edit]
- bēl lišānim (“one who knows a foreign language”)
References[edit]
- “lišānu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], volume 9, L, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1973