English
Hammurabi
Hammurabi comes from Akkadian Ḫammurapi, and goes back to Amorite *ʿAmmurāpi.
- Amoritemodern*ʿAmmurāpireconstructed
- Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEḪammurapi
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Hammurabi
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Amoritemodern*ʿAmmurāpireconstructed
- Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEḪammurapi
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Hammurabi
Earliest quotation: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash: “He gave a copy to his son Marduk, who…”
A compound of *ʿammu ‘father’ + *āpi ‘healer’
Every English word from Amorite *ʿAmmurāpi
Today it means
name the sixth king of Babylon.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Amorite *ʿAmmurāpi / Hammurabi