Note 956 — Chapter XXXV · FISH—VIVARIA—THE FIRST INSTANCE OF POACHING
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Lewysohn’s (Zool. d. Talmud, 248, as quoted by Keller, op. cit., p. 330) “Euphrat heisst etymologisch der fischreiche” is far from generally accepted. The river in Babylonian is Purattu, pronounced by the Persians Ufratus, which became when borrowed by the Greeks, Euphrates. So far from meaning rich in fish, Langdon traces the name to the Sumerian buranna, burnuna, meaning great basin.