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Akkadian
Etymology
Cognate with Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit) and Biblical Hebrew מֵת (méṯ).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mītum (feminine mīttum, masculine plural mītūtum, feminine plural mītātum, predicative mīt) (from Old Akkadian on)
- verbal adjective of 𒁁 (mâtum): dead
Cuneiform spellings
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Phonetic
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- 𒁁 (UŠ₂)
- 𒁀𒁁 (BA.UŠ₂)
- 𒃵 (GAM) (Neo-Babylonian)
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References
- “mītu”, 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) “mītu(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