Akkadian

Noun

𒅇𒆪𒊒𒌝 ‎(agurru, ukurru) [Ù.KU.RU.UM]

1. kiln-fired brick
2. paving stone, tile, slab
3. an impost
4. a metal object

Descendants

• → Aramaic:
  • Official Aramaic: 𐡓𐡅𐡂𐡀 ‎(*ʾaggor /ʾgwr/)
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܓܘܪܐ ‎(ʾaggūrāʾ)
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אגורא ‎(ʾaggurrā)
  • → Arabic: آجُرّ ‎(ʾājurr), آجُورّ ‎(ʾājūrr)
    • → Northern Kurdish: acûr
    • → Persian: آجر ‎(âjor), آجور ‎(âjur)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: آجر ‎(âcürr, âcür, âcer, âcir)
  • → Old Persian: 𐎠𐎦𐎢𐎽𐎢𐎶 ‎(agurum, “bricks”)
    • Persian: آﮔر ‎(âgor), آﮔور ‎(âgur)
      • → Georgian: აგური ‎(aguri), ანგური ‎(anguri)
        • → Bats: აგურ ‎(agur)
        • → Bezhta: агури
        • → Chechen: о̄гур ‎(ōgur) (Kisti dialect)
        • → Hunzib: агу́ри
        • → Mingrelian: ანგურა ‎(angura)
        • → Ossetian: а́гуыри ‎(ág°yri), агори ‎(agori)
        • → Svan: ანგურ ‎(angur), ანგური ‎(anguri)
        • → Tsez: агури
      • → Ottoman Turkish: آگور ‎(âgûr)
• → Old Armenian: ագուռ ‎(aguṙ) (probably borrowed via Persian, less likely via Hurrian or directly from Akkadian)
  • Armenian: ագուռ ‎(aguṙ), ագուր ‎(agur)
• → Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎎 ‎(ủgrm, “bricks”) (possibly, uncertain meaning)

References

• Erica Reiner, Martha T. Roth (editors-in-charge) (1956–2011), Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, in 21 vols, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, volume I, part a1, pages 160–163
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1896) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 5
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 31
• Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985), “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 105, issue 4, pages 597–603
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “ագուռ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 79a
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, pages 35–36
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 91
• Klimov, G. A.; Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Slovarʹ kavkazskix jazykov. Sopostavlenije osnovnoj leksiki [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, ISBN 5-02-018283-4, pages 142–143
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 68