Jerry D. Grover on "Jacob-Ugath"

 

 Jacob-Ugath

 

The great city of Jacob-Ugath will have the same elements as found for the city of Jacob just discussed. The Jaredite place of Ogath was discussed previously, and is etymologically identical in analysis since the letter “o” for purposes of this analysis in Sumerian can be equivalent to “u”. In all likelihood, based on the hyphen, Jacob-Ugath was located in land of Ogath (Grover 2015). Both Ogath and Jacob-Ugath involved great destruction. However, because the method was different (civil war versus a volcanic eruption), perhaps the slight difference in spelling between Ogath and Ugath has some difference in meaning. In addition to the destructive event etymologically described forthe city of Jacob, the Ugath element of the city name might consist of the following etymological units:

 

ug: plural and imperfect singular stem of uš	ah: (to be) dried (out), dry; to dry
[to die]	ah3-a (form of ah)
ug5-ga (form of ug)	ah: a paste; foam, scum
ug: (to be) furious; anger	uh3-a (form of ah)
ug: lamentation	tab: to burn, fire; to dye (red); to brand, mark
ad: (to be) crippled	tab: to flatten
ĝa: house	tab: illness, disease
ĝa2-ta (form of ĝa)	he: be it, be he

 

Constructed Compound Word: Jacob-Ugat(ab)h(e) or Jacob-Ugat(a)h(e) (Jerry D. Grover, Jr., Sumerian Roots of Jaredite Derived Names and Terminology in the Book of Mormon [Provo, Utah: Challex Scientific Publishing, 2017], 256-57)