assyrian
has definitions from the fields of linguistics,Assyrian,antiquity
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[ noun ] (Assyrian) an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)He was almost positive it was not Assyrian nor Cassite , and imagined it must have been German or English . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (linguistics,Assyrian,antiquity) an extinct language of the Assyrians regarded as a dialect of Akkadian
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Dr._H._V._Hilprecht , Professor of Assyrian at the University_of_Pennsylvania , dreamed that a Babylonian priest , associated with the king Kurigalzu , ( 1300 B.C. . ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel , gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic , and corrected an error in its identification . |
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