Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015)

Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by ajuc on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:15AM (#12230576)

> And do you have any concrete evidence that 'Kushim' is not a female name?

Most Indoeuropean languages have a vovel (most often "a") at the end of female names, and a consonant at the end of male names. It's just a consequence of the gender system and postfixes.

I'm not sure how old is this distinction, and I don't know if this writing system even preserved the vovels, if yes - it is indeed partial evidence that it was a male name.

More: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-female-names-end-in-vow...

In my (Slavic) language all female names end with "a" and all male names end with consonants.

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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by nandemo on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:49AM (#12231245)

But Sumerian was not Indo-european. It's considered a language isolate. And even if the name was from a different language that co-existed with Sumerian (like Akkadian), it was likely an Afro-Asiatic one.

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