uta

A favourite pastime during the early historic period was known as uta-gaki or uta-kai.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The uta is a sort of cancer, and it is more fearful in its consequences than the verugas.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Ya'uta 'or Uaite' is styled King of the Arabs, it is probable that the Cedarenes were merely allies of these kings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

When Samas-sum-ukin rebelled against his brother, Ya'uta 'or Uaite', the son of Hazael, sided with him and sent a force to his aid under the Cedarene generals Abiyate 'and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

"Shut up, uta," advised one of the masked Red Angels.

Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

In the same press release, the company announced that the number of chaku-uta (realtones) that have been downloaded on the network now exceeds 400 million.

100 million full track downloads for au Jan Kuczynski 2007

In a press release today, Japanese telecoms company KDDI announced that the number of chaku-uta full (full track music) downloads on their au mobile network hit the 100 million mark last week.

100 million full track downloads for au Jan Kuczynski 2007

In a press release today, Japanese telecoms company KDDI announced that the number of chaku-uta full (full track music) downloads on their au mobile network hit the 100 million mark last week.

Archive 2007-02-01 Jan Kuczynski 2007

That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.

Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim 2009

That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009