BTW: The name "Lulim" is the Arameic for spiral, in Modern Hebrew there are words like "לולין" ("Lulyan" / acrobat) that take this root)
> In addition, a star list identifies En-me-šár-ra with LU.LIM, the “deer-star”, while a mid-7th century Neo-Assyrian lexical text listing the seven traditional planets equates LU.LIM with UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ (kayamānu), the planet Saturn.
Other sources translate it simply as 'ram'.
Akkadian, which displaced it, is a Semitic language, which became the lingua franca of the Ancient Near East. Aramaic is somewhere between a relative and a descendant; more the former, Akkadian stands to Aramaic very roughly as Latin stands to English.
So... probably not? I don't know if any Sumerian loanwords have been identified in Akkadian, but it would surprise me if there were absolutely none, the Akkadians adopted cuneiform to write their language, and their empire was the successor to the Sumerian states.
If anyone can point me at resources on the subject, I'd enjoy that, I've always found that part of history fascinating.
@fortan77, That's fascinating! How do you know this? Do you speak Arameic? I happen to speak Arameic, but it's so crazy to find someone here on HN who might speak Arameic.
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