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Source:Livingstone:Journal of Semitic Studies:42:1:se'um
Livingstone: "the evidence allows but does not require the existence of a word se'um, 'barley'"
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Livingstone: "the evidence allows but does not require the existence of a word se'um, 'barley'"
Alasdair Livingstone:
If this [u'um] was the common word in Babylonian then it is more than likely that it also existed in Old Akkadian and could then have existed along with se, 'barley', as a loanword in Sumerian. ... In summary, the evidence allows but does not require the existence of a word se'um, 'barley'. It does, however, manifestly require the existence of a word u'um. [1]
Notes
- ↑ Alasdair Livingstone, "The Akkadian Word for Barley: A Note from the Schoolroom," Journal of Semitic Studies, 42:1, (1997)