Cover image for Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary Edited by Simo Parpola and Robert Whiting

Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary

Edited by Simo Parpola and Robert Whiting

Buy

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-952-10-1332-4

320 pages
7" × 10"
2007
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary

Edited by Simo Parpola and Robert Whiting

A compendious dictionary of two official languages of the Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian and Standard Akkadian, and the first English-Akkadian dictionary ever published. This volume is essential for every Assyriologist, Semitist, and interested layman; it contains about 13,000 Assyrian entries and about 23,000 English entries.

 

  • Description
  • Table of Contents
  • Subjects
A compendious dictionary of two official languages of the Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian and Standard Akkadian, and the first English-Akkadian dictionary ever published. This volume is essential for every Assyriologist, Semitist, and interested layman; it contains about 13,000 Assyrian entries and about 23,000 English entries.

Based on the Corpus of Neo-Assyrian text database and relying on the glossaries to previous SAA volumes, the Helsinki Assyrian Dictionary is, unlike other “Assyrian” dictionaries, actually a dictionary of Assyrian. It documents the language of the Neo-Assyrian period as reflected in the contemporary documents. In addition to Assyrian words and phrases, it also includes Babylonian words from letters to and from the Assyrian bureaucracy, words from royal inscriptions and other texts written in Standard Akkadian (the Assyro-Babylonian literary language), and many Aramaic words in common usage.

Preface

The Assyrian Language

The Aim and Scope of the Dictionary

The Design of the Dictionary

Structure of Entries

Order of Entries

Spelling

Assyrian Entries

English Entries

Paradigms

Abbreviations

Symbols

Assyrian-English

English-Assryian

Mailing List

Subscribe to our mailing list and be notified about new titles, journals and catalogs.