Olavarria Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 Mosiah 9:99)And we began to till the ground, yea, even with all manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley, and with neas, and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of fruits; and we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land.What is sheum? From what language does it derive? How the heck do I know? But here are some notes.In Akkadian, ?e'um(pronounced sheum) is barley. It should be noted that the founders of the Jaredite ruling lineage originated in Mesopotamia. Sheum might be a frozen form acquired via Jaredite-Mulekite contacts. However, there is another, in my mind more probable, possibility.In Hebrew, שעועית(?e'u-it) means "bean". So we have Akkadian sheum(barley), Hebrew she'u-it(bean) and Nephite sheum(?), all three words are used in an agricultural context and share the same root. Go figure....
Calm Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 There has been some discussion about this on the board before. You might want to do a search if you haven't already.
Olavarria Posted September 21, 2009 Author Posted September 21, 2009 And I have done most of it. Muahahahahahaha!!
Maya Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 Dont forget the Finnish seum... in the Finnish BoM translation...
Olavarria Posted September 22, 2009 Author Posted September 22, 2009 Dont forget the Finnish seum... in the Finnish BoM translation... Haha. What does that mean in Finnish?
krose Posted September 24, 2009 Posted September 24, 2009 How about "ushme" (variant of "ush-may"), the word for "mush" in one popular version of Latin. That's an anagram for "sheum."Mush is a cereal made from maize, which we know the ancient Americans had.
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