One of the words which were frequently repeated in the film entiltled The Poor Man of Nippur, World's first film in Babylonian, was ENZU, the word for a goat in Old Babylonian or Southern Akkadian. This word is still in use in Levantine, the main spoken lanuage in the Levant. Indeed, the word found in Levantine and written in Arabic script as عنزة is very similar to the Old Babylonian word, Enzu. Comparing between the words for goat in Modern Semitic languages, I have found o

Here I shed light on the semantics, morphology and etymology of the Sumerian word for goose _ 𒊻. We know that the Sumerian pictograph 𒊻 ( pronounced uz) is a combination of two pictographs or symbols _ 𒊺(pronounced še ) and 𒄷 ( pronounced mušen). 𒊺 is the Sumerian word for barley or grain. The pictograph 𒄷 in Sumerian usually functions as the determinative refering to birds as a cateogry. In other words, it follows words like eagle, sparrow, duck etc. to indicate this