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'''Etymology'''
'''Etymology'''


Until a possible language origin for [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names must remain more speculative than substantive.
While the origin of the [[JAREDITE|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] language is quite uncertain and etymologies for [[JAREDITE|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names must remain speculative, some suggestions about the origin of these names may still be proposed. One may compare, for example, the eponymous Aramean GN Bit Agush<ref>Alan R. Millard, “Abraham,” in ed. David N. Freedman, ''Anchor Bible Dictionary'' ((New York: Doubleday, 1992), 1:38.</ref> (Bit Agusi) from Arpad in west Syria.<ref>E. Meyers, ed., ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1:85-86, 5:132.</ref> '''A<small>GOSH</small>''' may be related to [[AKISH|A<small>KISH</small>]], since they are in the same vicinity and may be variant stems of the same root and express a common quality.


Best is eponymous Aramean GN ''Bit Agush''.<ref>A. R. Millard, "Abraham," in Freedman, ed., ''ABD'', I:38.</ref> (Bit Agusi) of west [[SYRIA|S<small>YRIA</small>]] (in Arpad).<ref>Bienkowski & Millard, ''Dictionary of the Ancient Near East'' (2010), 28; ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East'', ed. E. Meyers, 5 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1997), I:185-86, V:132.</ref>
Some Sumerian and Akkadian etymologies may also be proposed for '''A<small>GOSH</small>''': (1) Sumerian ''UKÚŠ'', ''ukuš<sub>2</sub>, u<sub>2</sub>-kuš<sub>8</sub>'' “cucumber, squash, gourd” = Akkadian ''qiššû'' = Hebrew ''qiššû’'' “cucumber” ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/11.5?lang=eng#4 Numbers 11:5]); and (2) Sumerian ''akuš'', akuš, ''a<sub>2</sub>-kuš<sub>3</sub>''; ''a<sub>2</sub>-1(diš)-kuš''= Akkadian ''ammatu'' “forearm; cubit.”<ref>Hayim Tawil, ''An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew'' (Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2009), 23-4.</ref> In connection with the name '''A<small>GOSH</small>''' one may also compare the Old Babylonian ''Hymn of Agushaya'' about Ishtar/Inanna.<ref>Tikva Frymer-Kensky, ''In the Wake of the Goddesses'' (New York: Free Press, 1992), 30-1, 67, 78.</ref>
 
'''A<small>GOSH</small>''' may be etymologically related to [[AKISH|A<small>KISH</small>]]. Since they are in the same vicinity, they may be varied stems of the same root and express a common quality ([[Paul Y. Hoskisson|PYH]]).
 
If Sumerian and Akkadian etymologies may be appealed to for [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names, some possibilities are listed below:
 
Sumerian UKÚŠ, ukuš<sub>2</sub>, u<sub>2</sub>-kuš<sub>8</sub> “cucumber, squash, gourd”= Akkdian ''qiššû'' = [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]] ''qiššûʿ'' “cucumber” ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/11.5?lang=eng#4 Numbers 11:5]).
 
Sumerian akuš, a<sub>2</sub>-kuš<sub>3</sub>; a<sub>2</sub>-1(diš)-kuš<sub>3</sub><ref>ePSD.</ref> = Akkadian ''ammatu'' “forearm; cubit.”<ref>Tawil, ''Akkadian Lexical Companion'', 23-24.</ref>  
 
Cf. Old Babylonian Hymn of Agushaya, about Ishtar/Inanna.<ref>Frymner-Kensky, ''In the Wake of the Goddesses'', 30-31,67,78.</ref>


See [[AKISH|A<small>KISH</small>]], [[KISH|K<small>ISH</small>]]
See [[AKISH|A<small>KISH</small>]], [[KISH|K<small>ISH</small>]]

Revision as of 16:20, 9 April 2014

Jaredite GN 1. Plains (Ether 14:15, 16)

Etymology

While the origin of the JAREDITE language is quite uncertain and etymologies for JAREDITE names must remain speculative, some suggestions about the origin of these names may still be proposed. One may compare, for example, the eponymous Aramean GN Bit Agush[1] (Bit Agusi) from Arpad in west Syria.[2] AGOSH may be related to AKISH, since they are in the same vicinity and may be variant stems of the same root and express a common quality.

Some Sumerian and Akkadian etymologies may also be proposed for AGOSH: (1) Sumerian UKÚŠ, ukuš2, u2-kuš8 “cucumber, squash, gourd” = Akkadian qiššû = Hebrew qiššû’ “cucumber” (Numbers 11:5); and (2) Sumerian akuš, akuš, a2-kuš3; a2-1(diš)-kuš= Akkadian ammatu “forearm; cubit.”[3] In connection with the name AGOSH one may also compare the Old Babylonian Hymn of Agushaya about Ishtar/Inanna.[4]

See AKISH, KISH

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐁𐐘𐐉𐐟 (eɪɡɒʃ)

Notes

  1. ↑ Alan R. Millard, “Abraham,” in ed. David N. Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary ((New York: Doubleday, 1992), 1:38.
  2. ↑ E. Meyers, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1:85-86, 5:132.
  3. ↑ Hayim Tawil, An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew (Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2009), 23-4.
  4. ↑ Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses (New York: Free Press, 1992), 30-1, 67, 78.
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