amurdinnum

== Akkadian == === Etymology === Unknown. Henry Ludwig Fr. Lutz opted to read the sign 𒄯 with the common value ḫar instead of mur, requiring one occurrence containing mu-ur- as referring to another plant, and deems the remainder to render Arabic *أَخُو أَرْضٍ (*ʔaḵū ʔarḍin, literally “earth brother”). This seems out of question since we realize that the modern value [dˤ], now transcribed superficially similarly ḍ, was in antiquity a voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮˤ]. Neither afford مَرْد (mard, “toothbrush-tree fruits”) thorns, as behoves by the Akkadian descriptions, or Arabic in general any transferrable ending. The structure hints to an Anatolian loanword with a privative a. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.murˈdin.num/ === Noun === amurdinnum m (El-Amarna, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: Synonym: 𒌑𒄉 (ašāgum) bramble, blackberry boxthorn manna tree, Alhagi maurorum jujube a disease of the eyes ==== Alternative forms ==== amurdinnu, murdinnu (Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian) === References === === Further reading === Thompson, Reginald Campbell (1941), Cyril John Gadd, editor, A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany‎[2], London: The British Academy, published 1949, page 330 “amurdinnu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎[3], volume 1, A, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1968, pages 90b–91a