mūtum
Akkadian
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Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mawt- (“death”). Cognate with Arabic مَوْت (mawt) and Biblical Hebrew מָוֶת (mɔ́weṯ).
Pronunciation
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.tum/
Noun
mūtum f (construct state mūt or mūti) (from Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian on)
- death
Alternative forms
- mūtu (non-mimated)
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References
- “mūtu”, 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), “mūtu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
- Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns