Star is not a compound word.
The Flemish word for star is "ster".
The word "asteroid" comes from the Greek word "asteroeidēs," which is a combination of "aster," meaning star, and "-oeidēs," meaning resembling. Therefore, "asteroid" translates to "star-like" or "resembling a star" in Greek. This term was first used in the early 19th century to describe the rocky objects orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
The early travelers used the stars not to get lost. They took the direction of star and if moving in same direction, the star would remain in the same direction.
star = כוכב (kochav)
Cuneiform is important because it is a early type of writting
The cuneiform - Sumer. The hieroglyphic writing - Ancient Egypt.
Cuneiform consists of signs, each meaning a word. There is no alphabet.
Egyptian and Sumerian cuneiform differ significantly.
petroglyphs cuneiform hieroglyphs
Cuneiform script consists of a combination of logophonetic, consonantal alphabetic, and syllabic signs. It is composed of wedge-shaped characters that represent an early form of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia. There are hundreds of cuneiform signs, each representing different phonetic values, logograms (word symbols), or determinatives (semantic markers).
cuneiform
The root word of cuneiform is "cuneus," which is Latin for "wedge." This refers to the wedge-shaped characters used in cuneiform writing, which was an ancient system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
Something that is described as "cuneiform" has a wedge-like shape. An example of a sentence using the word would be: They found several cuneiform bone fragments in that area of the dig site.
sumer
I would say pictograms because cuneiform was invented by early sumerians so very few people can read it today.
The SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION developed cuneiform as a method of transcribing concepts.