| 单词 |
Akkadian |
| 释义 |
Akkadian, a. and n.|əˈkeɪdɪən|
Also Accadian.
[f. Akkad, Accad, name of a city (prob. to be identified with Agade) founded by Sargon I, and of the northern part of ancient Babylonia: see -ian. Cf. F. accadien, G. akkadisch.]
A. adj.
1. Formerly, of a dialect related to Sumerian (see note s.v. Sumerian a.).
2. Of or belonging to an eastern Semitic language of northern Babylonia, known from cuneiform inscriptions, or to the people of this region or their culture.
B. n.
1. The Akkadian language.
2. An inhabitant of Akkad or northern Babylonia.
c1855E. Hincks (title) On the Relation between the newly-discovered Accadian Language and the Indo-European, Semitic, and Egyptian Languages. 1874Sayce in Trans. Soc. Biblical Archæol. III. 468 Elamu..is but a translation of the old Accadian name Susiana. Ibid. 484 In both Elamite and Susian, as well as in Accadian, the genitive relation may be expressed by simple position. 1875,1878[see Sumerian a. and n.]. 1884Sayce Fresh Light fr. Anc. Mon. ii. 24 The Accadians had been the inventors of the pictorial hieroglyphics..afterwards developed into the cuneiform..system of writing. 1921G. A. F. Knight Nile & Jordan iii. 31 The still earlier non-Semitic Akkadian civilization which the dynastic Babylonians dethroned. Ibid., Eridu..means in Akkadian ‘the city of the good (god)’. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet i. i. 49 In the long development of the cuneiform writing of the Mesopotamian Semites, we can distinguish in particular six periods: (1) The Early Accadian period and Ur III, roughly from the middle of the twenty-fifth century b.c. to the middle of the twenty-second century b.c. 1958A. Toynbee East to West liii. 160 The Akkadians themselves had acquired the vast irrigated oasis in the waist of Mesopotamia where the two rivers all but meet. |
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