AGOSH
| Jaredite GN | 1. | Plains (Ether 14:15, 16) |
Etymology
There is no certainty regarding the etymology of AGOSH, in part because it is unclear whether the JAREDITES were Mesopotamian in origin. Among the possibilities for etymologies are Sumerian and Mayan The placename "(plains of) AGOSH" may be connected with the Sumerian aga/uku-ús/aga-ús/us, "soldier" or the Sumerian á-kús-ù, "to prevail" (Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon 532, 150 #556). The Sumerian ukús, "cucumber, squash, gourd" (cf Akkadian qissu-CAD Q 271-72; Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon 222, 448-49; S. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian [Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976], 426) is a more distant possibility (none of thesse suggested etymologies, however, are actually attested as names).
AGOSH may be etymologically related to AKISH. Since they are in the same geographic area, they may be variant stems from the same root and express a common quality.
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