idīnum

Borrowed from Sumerian 𒂔 (eden, “plain, open country”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /iˈdiː.num/

idīnum m (Old Assyrian)

1. (Standard Babylonian) desert, steppe, plain
2. (Old Assyrian) meaning unclear

• idīnu (non-mimated)
• edinu, edinnu (Standard Babylonian)

• “edinu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “edinu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library