eškininītu
1 Lexical
SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts bí-za-za-me-èn-⸢na⸣mušen = áš-ki-ki-tú : èš-ki-ni-ni-tum = ṣililītum CT 14, 6 i 18 (Hg) DCCLT “'I-am-a-frog'-bird = aškikītu -bird or e. -bird = ṣililītu -bird”.
1Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (šumma) šēpī iš-ki-ni-ni-ti ina ašābišu itarrak AfO Bh. 27, 268: 37 eBL “(if he has) feet of a i. -bird, he is thumping (his feet?) when sitting down”. new
Discussion
The reading e/iškin(n)inītu (see already CAD) is confirmed by the hitherto unparsed attestation in a physiognomic omen. The word appears there in parallel with the bird šapītu, which in turn is explained as aškikītu in the commentary SpTU 1, 83 r. 16f. (see Böck 2000, 269 fn. 814). According to the Ḫg. entry cited above, e/iškininītu and aškikītu are synonymous. For the Sumerian entry, see Veldhuis 2004, 222.