Hi all. Great to see so much engagement - however, please refrain from "word X in Sumerian sounds like word Y in language of your choice". That's not how you link languages in a scientifically sound manner, but just random speculation. And because that random speculation clogs up half the spaces where Sumerian is discussed (the other half is taken up by Ancient Aliens nonsense), we will proceed to delete these going forward. Hope you understand! Update: just deleted several dozen comments along the "Sumerian is really X" (X = Tamil, Turkish, Kurdish, etc.). If your comment disappeared, it was probably one of those. Update II: Yes, I will delete posts on Sitchin, Däniken, Ancient Aliens and Graham Hancock, too, without discussion. This nonsense has already taken up way too much airspace and there is no shortage of places where one can "learn" about this if so inclined.
29:08 How can we tell the origin of Silim/Shalom came to Sumerian from Akkadian and not the other way around? Curious about this word as it's maybe the most common word on Hebrew. Thanks😇
42:20 this is how it works in Tamil which is agglutinative - but the reduplication is used to mean "each and every" X or "from one X to another" where X is the noun. example "veedu veedu aaha sendru" means "went from house to house" or "went to each and every house" (veedu : house in tamil). and in Tamil 'gal' is plural marker. example "aal or aalu" is person/man, and 'aalugal or aatkal' means persons/men.
The shape of the sign given for 'arad' is different from the one in Lesson 1 and also from the ones I see elsewhere. 'nitah' would seem to be a variant of 'nita' in Lesson 1, especially as it, too, is a homograph of 'arad', but there is was said to mean 'male' and not 'human'.
I'm not Gabriele, but terms for father and mother (and closely related words like grandmother, uncle ...) are very often formed from am/ma, ab/ba/ap/pa, at/ta/ad/da because these are the first sounds babies can make. In linguistics they are call Lallwoerter (plural of German Lallword). So, I would strike it up to coincidence.
Sounds a lot like Chinese classifiers... For animals People Important people Things in general Flat things Small round things Hand held objects Horses (or equine like animals) Etc
Hi all. Great to see so much engagement - however, please refrain from "word X in Sumerian sounds like word Y in language of your choice". That's not how you link languages in a scientifically sound manner, but just random speculation. And because that random speculation clogs up half the spaces where Sumerian is discussed (the other half is taken up by Ancient Aliens nonsense), we will proceed to delete these going forward. Hope you understand!
Update: just deleted several dozen comments along the "Sumerian is really X" (X = Tamil, Turkish, Kurdish, etc.). If your comment disappeared, it was probably one of those.
Update II: Yes, I will delete posts on Sitchin, Däniken, Ancient Aliens and Graham Hancock, too, without discussion. This nonsense has already taken up way too much airspace and there is no shortage of places where one can "learn" about this if so inclined.
29:08 How can we tell the origin of Silim/Shalom came to Sumerian from Akkadian and not the other way around? Curious about this word as it's maybe the most common word on Hebrew. Thanks😇
Thanks for sharing
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42:20 this is how it works in Tamil which is agglutinative - but the reduplication is used to mean "each and every" X or "from one X to another" where X is the noun. example "veedu veedu aaha sendru" means "went from house to house" or "went to each and every house" (veedu : house in tamil). and in Tamil 'gal' is plural marker. example "aal or aalu" is person/man, and 'aalugal or aatkal' means persons/men.
19:43 - In ku3-babbar, ku3 is ore and babbar is shiny, not the other way around.
20:30 - a-ba {d}utu-gin would normally be interpreted as a question, I think - a rhetorical question 'Who is like Utu?' (Answer: No-one.)
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The shape of the sign given for 'arad' is different from the one in Lesson 1 and also from the ones I see elsewhere. 'nitah' would seem to be a variant of 'nita' in Lesson 1, especially as it, too, is a homograph of 'arad', but there is was said to mean 'male' and not 'human'.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏
You say that lugal means king and kings, so lugalleneis used to specifically show they are many?
06:45: can "en" mean "horse cart" in Sumerian? Becase logogram resembles a horse cart!
Does "umma" (elder woman) have something to do with arabic "ummun" (mother)?
I'm not Gabriele, but terms for father and mother (and closely related words like grandmother, uncle ...) are very often formed from am/ma, ab/ba/ap/pa, at/ta/ad/da because these are the first sounds babies can make. In linguistics they are call Lallwoerter (plural of German Lallword). So, I would strike it up to coincidence.
Latin "schola" comes from Greek.
Sounds a lot like Chinese classifiers...
For animals
People
Important people
Things in general
Flat things
Small round things
Hand held objects
Horses (or equine like animals)
Etc