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Akkadian
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *yṯw- (to be). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁ (yéš) and Ugaritic 𐎛𐎘 (ỉṯ, “presence, existence”).
Pronunciation
Verb
išûm (G, u, preterite īšu) (from Old Akkadian on)
- to have, own
- to have a claim (against someone)
- (El-Amarna) used as a copulative
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References
- “išû”, 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) “išû(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
- The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon. An At-A-Glance Akkadian Dictionary of the RINAP 4 Corpus. In: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin, Vol. 19: pp. 29-86