AGOSH
| Jaredite GN | 1. | Plains (Ether 14:15, 16) |
Etymology
Until a possible language origin for JAREDITE can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of JAREDITE names must remain more speculative than substantive.
Best is eponymous Aramean GN Bit Agush.[1] (Bit Agusi) of west SYRIA (in Arpad).[2]
AGOSH may be etymologically related to AKISH. Since they are in the same vicinity, they may be varied stems of the same root and express a common quality (PYH).
If Sumerian and Akkadian etymologies may be appealed to for JAREDITE names, some possibilities are listed below:
Sumerian UKÚŠ, ukuš2, u2-kuš8 “cucumber, squash, gourd”= Akkdian qiššû = Hebrew qiššûʿ “cucumber” (Numbers 11:5).
Sumerian akuš, a2-kuš3; a2-1(diš)-kuš3[3] = Akkadian ammatu “forearm; cubit.”[4]
Cf. Old Babylonian Hymn of Agushaya, about Ishtar/Inanna.[5]
Variants
Deseret Alphabet: 𐐁𐐘𐐉𐐟 (eɪɡɒʃ)
Notes
- ↑ A. R. Millard, "Abraham," in Freedman, ed., ABD, I:38.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ ePSD.
- ↑ Tawil, Akkadian Lexical Companion, 23-24.
- ↑ Frymner-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses, 30-31,67,78.
