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Sumerian Ama-gi – Freedom – High Waisted Yoga Leggings

$45.00

Ama-gi is a Sumerian word translated as “freedom”, as well as “manumission”, “exemption from debts or obligations”, and “the restoration of persons and property to their original status” including the remission of debts. Other interpretations include a “reversion to a previous state” and release from debt, slavery, taxation or punishment. The word originates from the noun ama “mother” (sometimes with the enclitic dative case marker ar), and the present participle gi “return, restore, put back”, thus literally meaning “returning to mother”. Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer has identified it as the first known written reference to the concept of freedom. Referring to its literal meaning “return to the mother”, he wrote in 1963 that “we still do not know why this figure of speech came to be used for ‘freedom’.”

Note: Runs small, consider sizing up.

100% polyester
Skinny fit
Double layer waistband
Durable fabric

  XS S M L XL 2XL
Waist width, in 13.39 13.58 13.78 13.98 14.17 14.37
Hip width, in 16.14 16.54 17.40 18.31 19.21 20.08
Outseam length, in 36.81 37.40 37.99 38.58 39.17 39.76
Inseam length, in 26.97 27.56 28.15 28.74 29.33 29.92