Source:Robert F. Smith:Some 'Neologisms' from the Mormon Canon:Sheum


Smith: Sheum is "a precise match for Akkadian "she'um", 'barley' (Old Assyrian 'wheat'), the most popular ancient Mesopotamian cereal-name"

[Sheum is] a precise match for Akkadian [she'um], 'barley' (Old Assyrian 'wheat'), the most popular ancient Mesopotamian cereal-name[1]


Notes

  1. Robert F. Smith, "Some 'Neologisms' from the Mormon Canon," Conference on the Language of the Mormons 1973, Brigham Young University Language Research Center, 66.