FromAkkadian𒌷𒀕(/uruk/), fromSumerian𒀕(unug,“abode, site, location, seat, typically in reference to a deities earthly dwelling”) either as a phonetic alteration of theSumerian or influenced as a calque translation usingAkkadian𒌷(/uru/,“city, place of dwelling or collecting under”).
Uruk
- (historical) An ancientcity inSumer andBabylonia, in modern-dayIraq.
2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele,Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer,→ISBN, page248:[…] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status atUruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.
