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96 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR<br />
in á-ia[¡= re[fu, 'hel per " á-ta[¡-zu [¡e-a, 'thy helper verily he is "<br />
V R. 51 a 24. kakku ilu isiar á-ia[¡-mu, 'the weapon of Istar is my<br />
helper', V R. 63 b 30. ág-gig=ikkibu,' refuse " with doubling of g.<br />
Cf. also ág-gi-ra = daiku, , slayer', CT. XV 14 rey. 1; SBH. 68,11.<br />
2. Prefixed e : e-sir=süqu, sula, 'a street '; [probable vowel har<br />
mony for asir, ef. emeda CT. XV 27, 5 for ummedaJ. e-iud-da,' child',<br />
CT. XXI 22, 6. enim, 'heaven " [Br. 9017J from nim, 'be high', for<br />
anim by vowel harmony.<br />
3. Prefixed u : u-dug-ga, ' goodness " Gud. Cyl. A 6, 11; 19, 23.<br />
u-iud, 'offspring', Cyl. B 3, 11; u-lul-la =ma'adu, 'many', IV R.<br />
21 * 3; CT. XV 10 obv. 8; 30, 15 =27, 13. ú-nam-iil-la in é-ú-nam<br />
iil-la, 'house oflife " CT. 145,12. udul, , jar', diqaru, from dul>iul,<br />
'hole, eavity'. ú-gug, 'hunger, misery', CT. XVIII 46, 39-42.<br />
ú-kur= makalu, , food " CT. XVI 25, 17. uiud= iliiiu, , offspring';<br />
ú-[¡a-a=ma-'-du-ium, 11 R. 42 n° 2 rey. 27. u-sub =nalbaniu, 'brick<br />
mould " from sub = labanu.<br />
§ 149. We shaIl see below (§ 166) that the indefinite pronoun 1 is<br />
name (derived from the personal interrogative na plus the element me).<br />
By eontraetion the language obtained the ordinary abstraet prefix nam.<br />
Another abstraet prefix is nig, , thing " em ployed also as the impersonal<br />
relative. By means of these two prefixes nig, nam and the two variants<br />
nin and am Sumerian forms aIl of its abstraet nouns.<br />
a) nam to form abstraets; nun, 'great', namnun 'greatness'; rig,<br />
'!o plunder', namrag and namrig, 'spoil' : til, 'to live', namiil, 'life'.<br />
<strong>The</strong>eompound preposition nam-sú (=assu), 'beeauseof', mayeontain the<br />
same element; nam-bi-sú, 'as for him' ; also without .M in na-am uri<br />
= assum ali, 'beeause of the eity' SBH. 88,15; 135,8. <strong>The</strong> prefix has<br />
apparently no eonneetion with the noun nam =simiu, pirisiu, 'deeision',<br />
'destiny', whieh should be referred to the root nim, 'utter deeision',<br />
found only in the derivative inim> enim, 'word'. nam is frequently<br />
spelled out na-am (so! never na-am) as in na-am-gil=salJluqtu from<br />
gil=lJalaqu; na-am-nir=etillüiu, 'valour', from nir, 'be valiant'<br />
1. For both persons and things.
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