16th tablet of the Urra=hubullu lexical series, Louvre Museum
The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their Akkadian or other language equivalents.[1] They are the oldest literary texts from Mesopotamia and one of the most widespread genres in the ancient Near East. Wherever cuneiform tablets have been uncovered, inside Iraq or in the wider Middle East, these lists have been discovered.[2]
^Jeremy A. Black (1996). Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory (Studia Pohl). Loyola. p. 3.
^Yoram Cohen. "Lexical Lists: Compositions for Reading and Writing the Cuneiform Script". Shnaton. (in Hebrew).
The cuneiform lexicallists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their...
bound morphemes are not included. Items in the lexicon are called lexemes, lexical items, or word forms. Lexemes are not atomic elements but contain both...
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use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexicallists of the 3rd to the 2nd Millennia BCE, offering glossaries on Sumerian...
the East Semitic language of Akkadian, but due to the influence of lexicallists written in Sumerian language on cuneiform scholarship, they often contain...
Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages, which expanded the 1991 lexicallists and added other phonological and grammatical arguments. Starostin's...
often specific to a given field of knowledge or study. These include, lexical definitions, or the common dictionary definitions of words already in a...
language have survived, including personal and business letters, receipts, lexicallists, laws, hymns, prayers, stories, and daily records. Full libraries of...
name was represented in cuneiform by the Sumerogram ENGUR (LAGAB×ḪAL). Lexicallists provide evidence for multiple readings, including Nammu, Namma and longer...
particularly large quantity of literary texts and bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian lexicallists survive, especially from the scribal school of Nippur. Sumerian school...
Šuqamuna and Šumaliya, no Kassite deities have known iconography. Lexicallists at times attest equivalencies between Mesopotamian and Kassite deities...
literary texts, the lexicallists, lexicographic works of a scholarly type, which compile signs according to different themes (lists of crafts, metals,...
exclusively in Sumerian are lexicallists, probably for use in training scribes. The archives contain thousands of copybooks, lists for learning relevant jargon...
the Kassite-Babylonian vocabulary; scattered references in Akkadian lexicallists to Kassite equivalents of divine names, plants, etc.; for example, the...
languages, and other languages of East Asia. It is currently the largest lexical database of Austronesian languages in terms of the number of languages...
like Bazi and Zizi, might have been ordinary given names copied from lexicallists, such as the Early Dynastic so-called Names and Professions List, or...
produced with higher frequency (i.e. by more subjects), and earlier in lists, than less typical ones. Items are produced in bursts of semantically-related...
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