ensiship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Edmond Sollberger considers some evidence in Sumer of the 3rd Millennium BC notably the reality of the sovereignty of the god Enlil who elects and deposes rulers; a case of a royal judgement overruled; the strange relationship of Urukagina to his predecessor in the ensiship and later colleague, and his wife."
- "To Eannatum, the ensi of Lagash, whom Ningirsu (a god) had conceived of (in his mind), Inanna (a goddess) , because she loved him , gave the kingship of Kish in addition to the ensiship of Lagash."
- "Shuruppak was one of eighteen ensi'''ships under the control of Ur in the Ur III period (2112-2004 BCE.)"
- "Since the defeat of Lagash represented for Lugalzagesi the starting point for his ascension to the throne of Uruk, in lack of other documentary evidences, we tentatively assume the length of his ensiship to be 8 years, according to the highest available date in the texts."