--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> > Patrick says weird things again: > >It is quite possible that it
might be a compound of, e.g. me5, 'water' + > >luh, 'shine',
> > The Sumerian word for water is /a/. The Semitic root
> for water is *may-.
In Sanskrit a_pa is water; anu_pa in R.gveda refers to a water-logged
area.
About Meluhha, the cognate in Pali language is: Melukka
meaning 'copper'. Is it possible that the Sumerian name for the
region is a direct borrowing from the linguistic area (or copper ore
area) close to the Indus Valley?
Is there anything wrong with the following text and translation cited
in Muhly? May be he is wrong in breaking out LUH.HA?
1.1/3 MA.NA AN.NA
2. a-na 2 5/6 MA URUDU.LUH.HA
3.TE-MA-YU
4. i-na 8 GIN.TA.AM ba-l[i-e]l
5. SU.NIGIN 3 MA.NA 10 GIN ZABAR
6. a-na nam-za-qi-im
Translation:
1/3 mina of tin to 2 5/6 minas
of washed copper from
Tema (?) has been alloyed
(See J.D. Muhly, New evidence for sources of and trade in bronze age
tin, in: The Search for Ancient Tin , Washington, D.C., Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1978, pp. 43-48)(James D. Muhly, The Bronze Age
Setting, in: Theodore A. Wertime and James D. Muhly (eds.), 1980, The
Coming of the Age of Iron, New Haven, Yale University Press, pp.25-
67.)