Etymology

Ishtar

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Today it means: A goddess of fertility, love, sex, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte. Full definition →

Akkadian 𒀭𒈹
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The story

  1. Akkadian · learned borrowing from𒀭𒈹
  2. English todayIshtar

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar). Doublet of Astarte and Ashtoreth. Despite modern folk-etymology, not related in any way to English Easter.

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