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  1. Rakovsky

    What is the root meaning /etymology of the Sumerian word for God, Dingir?

    Here is a diagram of the development of Sumer's sign Dingir. The Akkadian symbols that succeeded it are on the upper right. https://aratta.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/the-sumerian-pantheon-an-dingir-nineresh/ Archibald Henry Sayce says in Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion (1887)...
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