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the interlinear Assyrian version, the former Accadian word 
being represented by kinnu, and the latter by apatu, "an 
opening." 
A bird's egg is bi-e-tsu in Assyrian, 
with which the Heb. Arab, ^jo, is to be compared ; it is 
generally referred to Heb. Arab. J^, "to be white." The 
Assyrian word is equated with the Accadian words sag-gis-ra 
(^yy*£: S=y E^ff); seeW.AJ., V, 18, 19; and with another 
word, tur = tarbitsu, " rest " or " eclipse "), 
in line 10. But the true Accadian word for an egg is 
^y J £^^^y (SUKUR SU NE TU?) and is definitely 
defined by the corresponding Assyrian fully expressed, as 
bitsu sa itstsuri y "the egg of a bird" (1. 11). Perhaps the 
Assyrian word ought to be referred to the Heb. " to 
break " (forth), as it is compared to an Accadian word 
denoting " an eclipse." I can throw no light on the meaning 
of the long Accadian ideograph for an egg. Saggiira is 
equated with some other Assyrian words, and its meaning is 
obscure. 
The young of birds are mentioned under the names of 
na-akh-tu (*~^y -^'""HffT ^f)' ni-ip-tsu (5ff^ ^Hff 
f abal itstsuri (fcgjC W.A.I., II, 37, rev. 1. 11. The first 
word is, perhaps, to be compared with the Heb. JTirjN akhavah, 
" brotherhood " or a " brood " ; niptsu may be referred to 
" to break " (forth) ; cf. bitsn, " egg," above ; 'abal, 
expressed by the Accadian word is the ordinary Assyrian 
for "a son." The following also occur as the names of young 
birds, viz., admu (Z-£z\ *^), and liddnu (>~- ^SEz ^ ^*~\\ ]} V")' 
For admu compare D*Ti^, "a man" = maru, "young." 
The Accadian name for a "brood " is E^Jjj^ LU GIL, for 
which T*~~y *^>~ is-khap-pu is the equivalent (II, W.A.I., 2, 
Syll. 329). Iskhappu is aptly compared by Delitzsch with the 
Arabic ^j;^, "small," "weak"; cf. also ^ j^y , » " fissus," 
" ruptus fuit (uter)." Esarhaddon calls Samas-ibni, king of 
