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wedge-writing en · NOUN

Etymology

From wedge + writing.

Meanings

1. A form of writing predominantly featuring the use of wedge-shaped characters; cuneiform.
   • Our concern is that it came on the scene after the confusion of tongues and lasted a very short time, then Cuneiform or wedge-writing came into use. 2013, Thomas H. Perdue, Mashiah Versus Anti-Mashiah:
   • The script in which the Assyrian texts are written is called cuneiform or wedge-writing because of its constituent elements: the horizontal, vertical and oblique wedge. 1885, Johns Hopkins University Circulars - Volumes 4-8
   • The term “evil eye” is known from Sumerian wedge writings from the third millennium bce. 2014, Nils Anfinset, Melanie Wrigglesworth, Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe:
   • The Assyro-Babylonian wedge-writing was originally a straight-line picture-writing. 1889, Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrian Grammar:
   • Argillographic records are those written on clay, the medium of choice for wedge writing; nearly all Akkadian (cuneiform) records are preserved on clay; many of the wedge-abjad records of Ugaritic are also preserved on clay. 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems:

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