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CONJUNCTIONS 175
terror". The conjunction ene, unlike the indefinite relative pronoun
ena, ana, introduces the indicative and the phrase like the ordinary
conditional (§ 222) has the independent formo en-e ku-babbar-ra á­
'1tus-Sá-a-ni ba-an-na-ab-lal-e, 'Until he shall pay the money for his
expenses' 2. e-ne Sáb-ba-a-ni na-me mu-un-gid-i, 'until he cause his
heart to attain something' 3.
§ 237. By compounding the preposition en with the word for 'time',
ud-da, the compound sub-ordinating particle en-ud-da, 'as long as',
arose, as yet found only in the phrase, en-e ud-da al-til-la narn-mag-zu
ge-ib-bi, 'As long as he lives may he speak of thy greatness' '.
en-ad·da.
§ 238. By repeating enna as a suffix the correlative 'either ... or' enna..... enna.
was obtained; tu-ra narn-d"[g lil-lá-en-na ki-el-lil-lá-en-na á-s"[g nam-
tar-gul ge-a, 'Be it sickness, death, either the lillü male or the lillü
female, disease, the evil' narntaru". lil-ud-tar-en-na 1f;al-lil-la-en-na
ki-el-lá-en-na, 'either the demon lil-ud-tar, or the 1f;al-lillü or the maid
(of the wind '), B.M. 93084 rev. 8 f. The form en-na-as which is of
course original, being compounded of en-na and .M, occurs in en-na ba­
ra-an-ta-dal-en-na-ás en-na ba-ra-an-ta-zig-en-na-ás, , As long as thou
either fliest not away or thou art not removed' 6.
§ 239. The correlative 'as - so' is formed by repeating the simple
modal ad verb a-dirn, 'thus'. bi-e a-dim nad-de-en uz más-bi u-bi a-dirn
ne-túg, 'As he slumbers so also the she-goats and their kids repose',
SBP. 318, 17.
1. HROZNY, Ninib 10 rey. 7. Both K. 8531 and Rm. 126 read ~~ = itarra,
but Sm. 1891, 4 (Bayloniaca, vol. IV) explains f]al'-f]w' by ittarrira. It may be
that ~ is an error for ~ kul'.
2. Il R. 15 a 33-5.
ian á-kas-sá shews.
the lexicons.]
[manalJta,' expense' is from the root analJu, as the Sumer­
/ws-sá = naba, 'to repose " is an error to be removed from
3. IV R. 20 obv. 5.
4. IV B.. 20 no. 2 rey. 7; 28 no. 1 rey. 20; 17 b 4.
5. CT. XVI 4,155. A variant has lil-lá-e-ne ki-el-e-ne, CT. XVII 481. 163.
6. Ibid. 11 b 56 f.
ted.
The same construction in 34,222 with the first ennas omito