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Suffixed
mu
130 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
whcreby the final vowels i and a are lost. a id-da-dím al-du-un nu­
zu, ' Like the water of a ri ver where he goes he knows not' 1• (vVe
expect the subjunctive of indirect discourse here.] a-na ib-pad-di-in na­
bi nu~ub-zu, '\Vhat he has planned this man knows not". ba-an-slg­
gi-in, 'WhOlll he slew (with a weapon)':l. ses-gal sib-ta-na4 su-ba-abte-ga-en,
'when the elder brother shall have taken his claim ".
The suffixed conjugation both primary and secondary agrees vvith
the antecedent subject in person and number. There is, however, one
notable exception in case of the suffix mu which correctly denotes the
first person 6, but in late texts appears for the third persono dumu
urudsin-na (?) azag-ga su-nag-mu, 'Son whom in the sacred copper­
bowl she baptized' 7. ib-ba na-am-i'á'u-ni im-ma-bar-m-mu, 'In rage
for her city which is plundered' 8.
§ 184. \Ve may from the foregoing paragraphs reconstruct the fol­
lowing table which represents the suffixed conjugation of the verb sig,
'to fix'.
Sing.
Pl.
1 sig-mu
stg-mene
2 sig-zu
3 sig-ni (bi)
Slg-zune
slg-ene
Prefixes. § 185. The preflxed conjugation. Mostlanguages consider the post­
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fixed conjugation amply sufficient to determine the verb with relation to
the subject. In addition to the simple postfixed pronouns the verb may
1. CT. IV 8 a 3.
2. lbid., 4 a 22.
3. KING, Studles in Ea"tern HistoriJ, vol. 1I1, p. 52, 1. 3.
4. Oblique case alter the compound verb sa-teg, see § 203.
5. POEBEL. op. laudo no. 24,9.
sic!
6. níg ma-f ni-:m-a-mu Ú :W-f) In-(l/1a-e)-z1I, 'what 1 know also thou knowest',
IV R. 7 a 30.
7. SEP. 74 rev. 9. Ibiel., line 13 (/[m-lná-mu, 'he has grown up', is inelepenelont
and by al! means incorrecto
8. SEP. liO, 14; eL also 1. 16. In SEP. 322, 4. 6. 8. 10. 12, several examples
oí this eonstruetion oeeur.