URU - city
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Apr. 14th, 2004 | 12:28 am
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shar_gaz in 
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Today's Sumerian word is "uru", which means "city" or "town".
"uru" is the traditional reading of the sign, but more recently Sumerologists have begun writing it "iri", as a more accurate transcription of how it would have sounded. ("uru" is pronounced "oo-roo" and "iri" like the English word "eerie".) My professor is of the opinion that in fact the vowels there were a sort of rounded 'i', a sound between 'i' and 'u', similar to a German umlaut sound.
And I am not describing that very well, but it's late and I'm tired.
Uru looks like this:
"uru" is the traditional reading of the sign, but more recently Sumerologists have begun writing it "iri", as a more accurate transcription of how it would have sounded. ("uru" is pronounced "oo-roo" and "iri" like the English word "eerie".) My professor is of the opinion that in fact the vowels there were a sort of rounded 'i', a sound between 'i' and 'u', similar to a German umlaut sound.
And I am not describing that very well, but it's late and I'm tired.
Uru looks like this:
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havenstar
date: Jul. 20th, 2007 05:43 am (UTC)
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Wanted to mention that for this post, you left off the second u and linked to the image for ur instead of uru- which confused me hugely for like two full minutes, because clearly Sumerian is best attempted at less absurd hours...
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shar_gaz
date: Jul. 20th, 2007 03:55 pm (UTC)
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