Akkadocentric
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Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Akkadocentric (comparative more Akkadocentric, superlative most Akkadocentric) (rare)
- Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).
- 1976, M. Civil, “Lexicography”, in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 142:
- 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.
- 2015, Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 60:
- Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]
Translations[edit]
focused on Akkadic
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