Sumerogram

English

Etymology

From Sumer +‎ -o- +‎ -gram.

Noun

Sumerogram (plural Sumerograms)

1. (linguistics) A Sumerian cuneiform symbol used as a logogram in another language, such as Akkadian or Hittite.
   • 1998 October, Terje Stordalen, Echoes of Eden: Genesis 2-3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature, Oslo: The Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology, page 36:

     Several ancient Near Eastern texts made cross references so as to cause readers to apprehend more than one text or theme at a time. Sumerograms in Akkadian literature or biblical quotations in Qumran pesharim are clear examples.

   • 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, →ISBN, page 12:

     Often the context will be clear enough and leave little room for doubt, but in many cases the need was felt to make the function of the Sumerogram in a particular clause explicit. This was done by adding the Hittite case ending to the Sumerogram: e.g., išḫaš is the subject case, išḫan the object case, and išḫi the indirect object case. These could be written ᴇɴ-aš, ᴇɴ-an, and ᴇɴ-i respectively. Such endings attached to a Sumerogram are known as phonetic complements.

Hypernyms

• logogram

Coordinate terms

• aramaeogram
• heterogram
• sinogram

Translations

Sumerogram

• Afrikaans: Sumerogram sg
• Catalan: sumerigrama f
• French: sumérogramme (fr) m
• German: Sumerogramm n
• Hebrew: שומרוגרמה
• Italian: sumerogramma m
• Portuguese: sumerograma m
• Spanish: sumerograma m, sumeriograma m
• Turkish: Sümerogram

See also

• Akkadogram

Further reading

• Sumerogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia