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Not only Sumerian was an artificial language but is also a very poetic language. The
scribes who operated the Sumerian idiom were very sophisticated people. You have to be
a pot yourself to understand the building blocks of Sumerian tongue. One of the most
spectacular words in Sumerian tongue is the garden of Eden or the back of a country. The
scribe who coined this particular phonetic value was a poet because he transferred the
word donkey in Akkadian to the back of a donkey and the countryside where donkeys
roamed about. The phonetic value of this Sumerian word is important because it is a pure
Akkadian word without any abbreviation so it is easy to detect Semitic traces on its
structure.
eden [PLAIN] (5x: ED IIIb, Old Babylonian) wr. eden "plain, steppe, open country"
Akk. edinu
[1
]
eden (edimx(EDIN),
edin)
SAL.ANE
[2
]
ANE.SAL
[3
]
SAL.HUB2
[4
]
SAL.AL
[5
]
SAL.EN
eme3
eme6
eme5
eme7
emex(|SAL.EN|)
, EME5 :
also [EME5.ANE :
, EME6 :
] (n. ;
;;
])
[Animals]
jenny, female donkey ,
: a mare ;