From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved "Volume III - The Tenth Month - Constellation Names for Sagitta"
In the Tenth Month - Capricornus.

Sagitta, the Arrow
The constellation name for Sagitta:

• Sumerian KAK.SI.SÁ, Akkadian Shukudu, "The Arrow," these names complies to Sagitta, but are related more to the star a Sirius in Canis Major Star Names regarding a connection to KAK.SI.DI/gag.si.sa for Canis Maioris.    This will derive as the Sumerian (kak, peg, spike, nail + si, put, place, to do + sá, advice, approach, compete), and possibly "To approach and place a peg/spike."
  • Sumerian kak:(cf., gag); Sumerian ^(giš)gag: peg; nail, spike; bone; hinge, joint, knee.
    • Sumerian mangaga, 'palm fiber, bast' = man, 'equal, partner' + gag, 'nail, peg' + a(k), 'of'.
    • Sumerian gag-ha-har-ra-na: a peg or nail ('peg' + 'roads' ?).
    • Sumerian gag-maš: a peg or nail ('peg' + 'one-half').
    • Sumerian gag-zag-ga: side (?) peg ('peg' + 'side, boundary').
  • Sumerian sì, sè(-g/k): to apply, put, place; to make flat, even; to sweep along; to do, cause; to surround; to compare (cf., sig₃).
    • Sumerian si₄, su₄, sa₁₁: red.
    • Sumerian si₁₄: a small pot.
  • Sumerian sá: n., advice; v., to approach or equal in value; to compare with; to compete (with -da-).
    • Sumerian sa: n., sinew, tendon; cord; net; mat; bundle; a string instrument; v., to roast (barley) (cf., si; sa).
    • Sumerian sa₄: to name; to call by name.
    • Sumerian sa₅: n., red ocher; adj., red, red-brown.
    • Sumerian sa₆: (cf., šag₅).
    • Sumerian sa₇: well-formed.
    • Sumerian sa₁₀: (cf., sám).
  • From www.lexiline.com it claims, "The Lance (KAK.SI.SA), the spear of the great hero Ninurta.    This is the lance (arrow?), next to the bow, running from Sirius to Procyon, where we today refer to Canis Major and Minor."
  • From www.lexiline.com it claims, "The 15th of Tebetu the swallow SIM.MACH (added later: shiunutum IM.SHESH in the East and the lance KAK.SI.SA), the Great Square ASH.IKU rises in 20 days, and on the opposite the standing gods DINGIR.GUB.BA.MESH.    The path of the moon, the Goat-Fish SUCHUR.MASH, the Great GU.LA, the 'tail' of the Swallow SIM.MACH, the 'tail' KUN.MESH of the Swallow the 'bands' are intended and identified as the Tigris and Euphrates, 'bands' going forth from the Swallow (and Great Square), later as swallow and Anunitum were changed into two fish and the two bands of the fish."
    
  
  
• Latin sagitta, "arrow."
  
  
• Rolleston states that Sagitta, "Anciently said to be the Arrow that slew the Eagle."
  
  
• Egyptian/Coptic:
  • To see more on the Denderah Zodiac for Sagitta.
  
  
• Other names for Sagitta: Al H'ams or H'am'sab (Arabic), Is'tiosc, Is'tusc, Alchanz'ato scha'ham, Alahance', Alhance', Alhanere, legendum Alhance.
  • The Hebrews called it Hes or Hets.
    • Hebrew chets, khayts, from Heb. chatsats, khaw-tsats', a primary root as denom. to shoot an arrow.
  • The Armenians and Persians, Tigris.
  • The Arabians, Al Sahm, all meaning an Arrow; this last, given on the Dresden globe, being turned by Chilmead into Alsoham, by Riccioli into Schaham, and by Piazzi into Sham.
  • In some of the Alfonsine Tables appeared Istusc, repeated in the Almagest of 1515 as Istiusc, both probably disfigured forms of oistos.
  • The Alfonsine Tables of 1521 had Alahance, perhaps from the Arabic Al H'ams or H'amsah, the Five (Stars), its noticeable feature.    The same Almagest also had Albanere, adding est nun, all unintelligible except from Scaliger's note: legendum Alhance, id est Sagitta, hebraicae originis, converso Dages in Nun, ut saepe accidit in Arabismo et Syriasmo.
  • Schickard wrote it Alchanzato.

See Star Names of Sagitta.

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