Accadian

[ uh-key-dee-uh n, uh-kah- ]

/ əˈkeɪ di ən, əˈkɑ- /

Akkadian.

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Akkadian

[ uh-key-dee-uh n, uh-kah- ]

/ əˈkeɪ di ən, əˈkɑ- /

the eastern Semitic language, now extinct, of Assyria and Babylonia, written with a cuneiform script.

one of the Akkadian people.

Obsolete. Sumerian.

of or belonging to Akkad.

of or relating to the eastern Semitic language called Akkadian.

Obsolete. Sumerian.

First recorded in 1850–55; Akkad + -ian

Because it appears that in that ancient Accadian civilisation lie the seeds of many Bible laws and legends.

God and my Neighbour |Robert Blatchford
In the Accadian the order is 'woman and man,' in the Assyro-Babylonian translation, 'man and woman.'

Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People |A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Code of moral precepts addressed to princes and courtiers; earliest Accadian law book expressly protected slaves, 138.

Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People |A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Its most ancient name was Te, possibly a corruption of the Accadian dimmena, “a foundation-stone.”

Astronomical Curiosities |J. Ellard Gore

Lifting over her both his long, withered hands, he began to pray in the Accadian tongue to Nergal, the god of health.

Istar of Babylon |Margaret Horton Potter

Akkadian

/ (əˈkædɪən, əˈkeɪ-) /

a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc

the extinct language of this people, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

of or relating to this people or their language