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Akkadian
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Sumerian ππ² (eβ-gal /β egalβ /, βpalace, templeβ).
Logogram
ππ² β’ (Eβ.GAL)
- Sumerogram of Δkallum
Sumerian
Etymology
From π (eβ /β Δβ /, βhouse, templeβ) + π² (gal, βgreat, bigβ).
Noun
ππ² β’ (eβ-gal /Δgal/)
- palace
24th c. BCE, DP 339, Lagash, CDLI P220989, lines rev. 2:3β3:1:π·π
ππΎ π π’ππ·π π€ ππ²π« ππ«ππΊπ- iri-ka-gi-na, lugal LAGAΕ ki-keβ, eβ-gal-ta e-ta-edβ-deβ.
- Irikagina, king of Lagash, will supply them from the palace.
- temple
Descendants
- β Akkadian: ππ² (Δkallum) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ePSD2
- Edzard, D.O. (2003) Sumerian Grammar, Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, archived from the original on 6 August 2017, page 19
- Cabolov, R. L. (2001) EtimologiΔeskij slovarΚΉ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 429
- Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19), Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, βISBN, page 27
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of GeΚΏez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, βISBN, page 221