ensiship
ensiship noun: the office or tenure of an ensi.
Noun
ensiship (plural ensiships)
- The office or tenure of an ensi.
- Edmond Sollberger considers some evidence in Sumer of the 3rd Millennium BC notably the reality of the sovereignty of the god Enlil who elects and deposes rulers; a case of a royal judgement overruled; the strange relationship of Urukagina to his predecessor in the ensiship and later colleague, and...1977, University of London, Institute of Archaeology, Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, numbers 14-15, page 226
- To Eannatum, the ensi of Lagash, whom Ningirsu (a god) had conceived of (in his mind), Inanna (a goddess) , because she loved him , gave the kingship of Kish in addition to the ensiship of Lagash.1986, Petrus Franciscus Maria Fontaine, The Light and the Dark: Dualism in the Ancient Middle East, page 238
Forms of ensiship
| plural | ensiships |
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Origin of ensiship
From ensi + -ship.
Questions about ensiship
- What does ensiship mean?
- Ensiship means the office or tenure of an ensi.
- What part of speech is ensiship?
- Ensiship is a noun.
- What is the plural of ensiship?
- The plural of ensiship is ensiships.
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