šēpum
Appearance
Akkadian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare perhaps Biblical Hebrew פֶּשַׂע (pɛ́śaʕ, “step”), by metathesis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈʃeː.pum/
Noun
[edit]šēpum f (construct state šēp or šēpi, dual šēpān, plural šēpētum or šēpātum)
- foot
- leg
- 𒋗𒋛 𒄊 [ubān šēpim] ― ŠU.SI GIR₃ ― toe (literally, “foot finger”)
- self, person
- access, approach, attack
- conveyance, transport, routing
- rank
- (extispicy) "foot" (a distinctive mark on the liver)
Alternative forms
[edit]- šēpu (non-mimated)
- šīpum (Old Babylonian)
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Related terms
[edit]- šēpītum (“lower part, end, foot”)
See also
[edit]- 𒇿 (pagrum, “body”)
References
[edit]- “šēpu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], volume 17, Š, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1992
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šēpu(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