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Akkadocentric

Akkadocentric adjective: emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).

Adjective

Akkadocentric (comparative more Akkadocentric, superlative most Akkadocentric)

  1. (rare) Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).
    • The two main distorting factors are the ethnocentric approach and the Akkadocentric approach. […] By the Akkadocentric approach I mean the procedure that stops the semantic investigation of a Sumerian word as soon as its Akkadian equivalent is determined.1976, M. Civil, “Lexicography”, in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 142
    • Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]2015, Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 60

Forms of Akkadocentric

comparativemore Akkadocentric
superlativemost Akkadocentric

Origin of Akkadocentric

From Akkado- + -centric.

Questions about Akkadocentric

What does Akkadocentric mean?
Akkadocentric means emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).
What part of speech is Akkadocentric?
Akkadocentric is an adjective.

Words near Akkadocentric in the dictionary

  1. Akkadize
  2. Akkadized
  3. Akkadizes
  4. Akkadizing
  5. Akkado-
  6. Akkadocentric
  7. Akkadogram
  8. Akkadograms
  9. Akkadophone
  10. Akkads
  11. Akkala Sami

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