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Danish
Etymology
From kile (“wedge”) + skrift (“script”), calque of German Keilschrift.
Pronunciation
Noun
kileskrift c (singular definite kileskriften, plural indefinite kileskrifter)
- cuneiform (ancient writing systems in the Middle East)
1872, Valdemar Schmidt, Assyriens og Ægyptens Gamle Historie ...:... nemlig de saakaldte persiske og mediske Kileskrifter ...- ... namely, the so-called Persian and Median cuneiforms ...
- a text written in cuneiform
2017, Thomas Jensen, Seth Sethsen, Seth - en krigermunk bag tremmer, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:Historierne om katastroferne fandtes i så forskellige skrifter som Biblen, ægyptisk papyri, mayaernes kalender, nordiske sagn, græske sagn, russiske sagn og babylonske kileskrifter.- The accounts of the catastrophes are found in so different writings as the bible, Egyptian papyri, the Mayan calendar, Nordic myths, Greek myths, Russian myths and Babylonian cuneiform texts.
2014, Kurt L. Frederiksen, Thorkild Hansen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:På hjemrejsen sad han i mange dage i træk og kopiere kileskrifter i Persepolis.- On his way home, he sat for many days in a row copying cuneiform texts in Persepolis.
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