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Compound
conjunctions.
en, enna.
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ni, na, bi, ba or by the oblique inflection a. (§§ 183, 223). ki gIr-gín­
na-mu ga-an-si-il, '\Vheresoever 1go may 1 prosper' '. ud d·enlil ...
nam-lugal kalam-ma e-na·sum-ma-a, '\iVhen Enlil gave him the sove­
reignty of the land' '.
SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
§ 235. The agglutinative character of the language tended to the
preservation of compound subordinating phrases, the suffixed particle
being thrown to the end of the phrase subordinated by the temporal,
local, causal or conditional elemento Thus ud-sLÍ means 'at that time',
but ud kLÍ-bahbar mu-un-twn-da-as, 'At the time when he brings sil­
ver' 3. ud su.-zid ma-si-tum-da, 'U pon the day when he shall lay
thereunto a faithful hand'·. For the causal mLÍ-... M corresponding to
the compound preposition mu-sLÍ see the example cited p. 79, note 3.
The subordinating conjunction for 'after' is egir ... ta. egir sir-bw'­
la-(ki) ba-gul-a-ta, 'After Lagash was destroyed' 5.
§ 236. Sumerian evidently possessed a noun ene, enne meaning
'attainment', 'fulness', whence are derived the indefinite relative pro­
noun ena, ana (p. 113) and the adverbial conjunction, 'until', (adi) 'as
often as', 'inasmuch as', enna, en. The same root appears in the
compound preposition en ... M, 'up to', 'unto'. en ará ilim-kaJn-ás
ha-{;ul, 'for the ninth time it was destroyed' 6. enna ... M may govern
an infinitive, a construction which replaces an adverbial clause. en-n a
é-ta til-la-ás úr e-a ab-mal-mal ur-ri ki-in ah-aga-e, 'As long as one
lives in the house, he shall build the roof of the house, (and) shall con­
struct the foundation on the earth', II R. 15 a 9-11. en-M a-ga-bi-sLÍ,
'until forever', SBP. 332,26. The postfix sLÍ is then dropped and en
employed alone as, en sar-ra nam-nú-in-sil, 'unto the earth they flee in
1. CT. XVI 7, 276.
2. SAK. ]54 1 36-41.
3. ASKT. 61,39. Here da is verbal augment.
4. Gud. Cy!. A 11, 6.
5. SAK. 58 II 11-12.
6. B. M. 18415 rey. 13.