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Etymology
The semitic root L-Y-L layil in Hebrew, as layl in Arabic, means "night". Talmudic and Yiddish use of Lilith follows Hebrew.

In Akkadian the terms lili and līlītu mean spirits. Someuses of līlītu are listed in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), inWolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (AHw, p. 553),and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. 47).[5]

The Sumerian she-demons lili have no etymologic relation to Akkadian lilu, "evening".[6]

Archibald Sayce (1882)[7] considered thatHebrew lilit (or lilith) Hebrew: לילית; and Akkadian: līlītu are from proto-Semitic. Charles Fossey (1902)[8] has this literally translating to "female night being/demon", although cuneiform inscriptions existwhere Līlīt and Līlītu refers to disease-bearing wind spirits.[citation needed] Another possibility is association not with "night", but with "wind", thus identifying the Akkadian Lil-itu as a loan from the Sumerian lil, "air"— specifically from Ninlil, "lady air", goddess of the south wind (and wife of Enlil) — and itud, "moon".[citation needed]


[edit]Mesopotamian mythology

Main article: Lilu (mythology)Although widely repeated in secondary and tertiary sources the possible references to Lilith in Mesopotamian mythology are now disputed:


[edit]The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh Epic

Samuel NoahKramer (1932, published 1938)[9] translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith in "Tablet XII" of the Epic of Gilgamesh dated c.600 BC. "Tablet XII" is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is alater Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian poem of Bilgames and the Netherworld.[10] The ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is associated with a serpent and a zu bird.[11] In Bilgames and the Netherworld,a huluppu tree (willow) grows in Inanna's garden in Uruk, whose wood she plans to use to build a new throne. After ten years of growth, she comes to harvest it and finds a serpent living...