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Seco pero
suffix.
104 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
bright verily is of thee' '. The form za-e is employed falsely for za-a in
za-e-ra = ana kli8ama' .
In certain cases ::a-e is translated by kf1tu where the Semitic idiom
demands the oblique form but the Sumerian the rectus. Such exam­
pIes must not be considered errors, as za-e enem-zu=k[;du amatka, 'as
for thee thy word '.
The plural is zi-ne written zi-en in the syIlabar K. 5423, me-en-zi­
en=at-tu-nu