Akkadian Addenda · Signs
house
| Name | É |
|---|---|
| Reads | [bītum] |
| Means | veteran — É gains [bītum]: the house-sign as a sumerogram |
| Taught in | 10 · The River decides |
| In Sumerian | the same sign's Sumerian page |
Where it comes from
The house-sign of 101 — e2, the house and household, the sign in this school’s own name. Akkadian kept it whole as a sumerogram: on the clay it is E2, in the mouth it is bītum, “house, household, estate,” declined and suffixed like any Akkadian noun — bīssu, “his estate,” with the -šu melted on.
How to remember it
The oldest address in the school: you learned this sign to read é-dub-ba-a, the tablet house. Babylon still lives in it — it only answers to a different word at the door.
In the wild
urn:nabu:cdli:p464358:a:323 · license: attribution.
Akkadian reading taught in 103’s chapter 10.