Re: Proto-Romance

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:


> > Would the fact I've seen the Akkadian name of Nimrud given variously
> > as 'Kalah', 'Kalha' and 'Kalhu' (that's ignoring 'k'~'c' and 'h'~'kh'~'ch'
> > variation) be related to that loss of case suffixes?
>
> Well, if so, those would be the forms without mimation or nunation.
> (-am- being the marker for the acc. sg. case in Old Babylonian, and
> long -uu being the nominal marker for the nom. pl.).  The form _Kalah_
> might be the construct state form.  But it seems unlikely to me that a
> Akkadologist would not normalize place names to their common English
> forms.  I'll have to ask my friends over at the Oriental Institute to
> be sure.   (I looked through my modest Akkadian lexica myself and found
> no entry for Nimrud like that.)
My impression was that 'Calah' is the commonest name-form in English. However,
google gives about 8k hits for that, 20k for 'Nimrud' and a bit under a
thousand for 'Kalhu' ('Kalah' and 'Kalha' gives unrelated hits for the first
page).

                                                         Andreas

                                                  Andreas

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