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sú construed
with verbs.
sú causative.
72 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
ently suited toexpress states or conditions of an object. zid the infinitive
for ' to be faithful " inflected zidde-sú, means ' in a state of faithful­
ness', kínis" consequently Sú, es, etc. became the Sumerian adverbial
ending. ud-de-es = uddis, daily'. dug-gi-es = tábis, well. gal-li­
es=rabís, greatly. isis-na-slÍ, 'with wailing for him', SBP. 306, 26.
zibbada-ás= tábis, Samassumukin, biling. 18. nam-enim-ma dirig­
dirig-Sú e-ag, 'he acted with pompous speech', SAK. 38, 1, 16-7.
It would appear at first sight that the Babylonian adverbial ending
-is, as should be a borrowing from the Sumerian, but 1 have endeavoured
to shew that this is not the case 3. A certain influence of the
Sumerian constructjon may have made itself upon the evolution of the
Semitic adverbial ending.
§ 89. sú is construed with persons after certain verbs to denote tbe
person with whom the subject is concerned in a transaction. zur-zur­
rá-zu-ni g12-de-a-ás ... su-ba-si-ti, 'he received the petitionfrom Gudea',
Cyl. A, 2, 21. sag-sal ginar-ta-pad-da-an za-ni-ni arad-d.ningirsu-ka­
slÍ .. , é-sú-sam, 'a female slave Ginartapaddan (by name) Zanini has
purchased from Arad-Ningirsu', RTC. 16 obv., I-Il". The same con­
struction in RTC. 290, ababilgim-sú in-si-sam, 'he has purchased of A.'
The postfix ra occurs for sú in abba l12gi-zi-ra ur-é-gir-ge in-si-sam,
'from Abba the merchant ('1) U r-egir has purchased.'
§ 90. sú is employed in the sense of because oj, at the sight oj, in
Gud. Cyl. A, 9, 13-5, which is also an excelleIÍt example of the agglut­
inative character of Sumerian. é lugal-bi igi-sud il-il cl.imi-dugud­
(musen)-dím sig-gi-a-bi-sú ane im-si-dúb-dúb, 'because of the temple,
whose lord casts a far-away gaze, \vhich gleams like the zu bird, the
1. CyI. B 12, 26.
2. CyI. B 16, 8.
3. PSBA. 1909, 110-4.
4. Yet we find the construction from ordinarily expressed by ta or ki-ta after
these verbs. se lú-X-ta su-bu-ti, , he has received grain from X ',passim. Compare
CT. VIU 47 A 8 for the same construction with sam. See aIso THUREAU­
DANGIN, ZA. XX, 394.
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