Akkadocentric

English Etymology From en Akkado centric. Adjective en rare Emphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic). en Lexicography Miguel Civil M. Civil The two main distorting factors are the ethnocentric approach and the Akkadocentric approach. By the Akkadocentric approach I mean the procedure that stops the semantic investigation of a Sumerian word as soon as its Akkadian equivalent is determined. 142 Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen 1976 w:University of Chicago Press 0226622827 https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/as/20-sumerological-studies-honor-thorkild-jacobsen-his-seventieth-birthday en https://books.google.com/books?id=HZilCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 Genealogical Classification of Semitic Leonid Kogan w:De Gruyter 9781614515494 2015 60 Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture Translations focused on Akkadic French: fr akkadocentrique German: de akkadozentrisch Italian: it accadocentrico