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Akkadian loanwords in Sogdian (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Measures of time 08 Administrative systems 08.05 Administrative standards 08.05.03 Measures of time Mesopotamian loanwords in Iranian 11 Language, communication, libraries and education 11.01 Imperial languages 11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features 11.01.05.05 Mesopotamian loanwords 11.01.05.05.04 Mesopotamian loanwords in Iranian	Keywords naming Sogdian language
Period Sasanid Empire	Channel Iranian culture

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Sogdian δpyr “scribe”;
Sogdian ˀrγwˀn “purple”, from Akkadian argamannu;
Sogdian dwlyy “Aquarius”.
The Sogdian word for “degree (of a circle)”, suš, can be derived from Greek sossos, and ultimately from Akk. šuššu - “sixty, a unit of sixty”.

Bibliography

Henning 1942, 239n1	Henning, W. B. “An Astronomical Chapter of the Bundahishn.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1942) 229-248.
Sims-Williams 1996, 77	Sims-Williams, Nicholas. “From Babylon to China. Astrological and Epistolary Formulae across Two Millennia.” In: La Persia e l'Asia centrale da Alessandro al X secolo. Atti dei convegni lincei 127. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1996, 77-84.

Andrea Piras

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