Identifier: hilprechtanniver00leip (find matches)
Title: Hilprecht anniversary volume. Studies in Assyriology and archaeology dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of his doctorate and his fiftieth birthday (July 28)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Assyriology Archaeology
Publisher: Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Semitic and Sumerian. A Study in Origins. In a paper entitled Babylonian Hieroglyphs, which appearedin P.S.B.A., Jan. 1898, I wrote: Ihe del4 of the Semitic tothe primitive Sitmerian language is far greater than is generallyrecognised. It is impossible to look at a word like D UG and itsyoimger form ZIB, good\ ivithout seeing a relationship betweenit and tabu, the Assyrian teinn zvhicJi explains it (Heb. DID, Aram.1^) .... The Arabic O^ä* Jni-t, fish\ may be compared withthe SnmerianY^<, HA, KU from GU), fish\ The words IDH,^j, y^, the palm aiid its fruit are akin to G IS H I MM AR,shinunar-tree, palm. The suggestion thus made may betaken as my present text; and the proper conclusion from whatI have to submit may be the exact contrary of the wellknownhypothesis of the school of HaLÉVY. In short, so far from beingan artificial jargon, concocted by Semitic scribes from the dataof their own language, it will, I think, appear more probablethat Sumerian is not only a genuine tongue of

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