camp army 3 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Byzantine Greek
lexeme φοσσᾶτον
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 army
reference
comment Buck 1377.
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Cognates
language 1 German
language 2 Danish
lexeme 1 Lager
lexeme 2 leger
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 army
reference
comment Buck 1378
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Sumerian
language 2 Akkadian
lexeme 1 uĝnim + (written logographically as KI.SU.LU.UB2.GAR)
lexeme 2 ummānum
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 military force, troops, army
reference CAD: U/W 102f.
comment

On the logographic level (KI.SU.LU.UB2.GAR), Sum. uĝnim literally means 'a place where the army is located', i.e. military camp, with the determinative {ki} for geographical names [see further Englund 1990: 132-133].

Cf. in Ebla Akkadian the same literal meaning for EREN2.KI.GAR 'the place where the troops reside'. In lexical list [VE 140b] the lexeme is glossed as maš-bi2-tum /maṣbi'tum/ 'troops, army' (< PS * ṣ̂aba'-) and u3-ma-num2 /'ummānum/ 'troops' (= Akk. ummānum).