SHAUMAU
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| Pearl of Great Price PN | 1. | SHAMAU “to be high; heavens” (1842a; BofAbraham facsimile 1:12 ∥RAUKEEYANG) |
Hebrew šammā, šamā (Psalm 68:5 archaic singular Hebrew šammā “height” = Ugaritic tm, UT 68:4), which was taken over as a loan-word into Aramaic as šimme[1] = Akkadian šamû, šamê, šm’, samû (Sumerian AN),[2] Arabic sama’.
Variant: SHAUMAU 1842b
See SHAUMAHYEEM, RAUKEEYANG
Notes
- ↑ Dahood, Psalms I, Anchor Bible; A. van Selms, Ugarit-Forschungen, II (1970):264.
- ↑ Lambert & Millard, ATRA-ḪASĪS, III, iii, 8, etc.; Reiner, Linguistic Analysis of Akkadian, 27; Akkadian simmelat šamami “the stairway of heaven,” JSS, 7 (1962):174; Z. Cochavi-Rainey, Akkadian Dialect of Egyptian Scribes (2011), 14.
Bibliography
- Smith, Robert F. “Some ‘Neologisms’ from the Mormon Canon,” 1973 Conference on the Language of the Mormons, May 31, 1973, 64-68. Provo: BYU Language Research Center, 1973, online at https://www.scribd.com/document/363522963/SOME-NEOLOGISMS-FROM-THE-MORMON-CANON .
