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INFLECTION AND POSTFIXES 73
beavens tremble ' ; here é is governed by sú placed after the modifying
phrases. zapag-zu-sú 'at thy thunder (he is shaken)', SBP. 280,13.
The directive force may be so lost that sú appears for ta,. ud-subbana-sú,
'at the time of bis descent', SBP. 306, 26.
§ 91. sú, like m, may indicate the direct object, but only of things.
6 1/2 gin ku-babbar-sú sam dam-mu-nanga-mu-sú ki-daga-ta lugal­
azag-zu su-ba-ti, '61/2 shekels of silver, tbe price of Dammunangamu.
from Daga Lugalazagzu has received " RTC. 294, 2-5. lair-Súgul-gul-la,
'the land he has destroyed', SBI-I. 8, 60. sag-ga-na-sú mi-ni-in-ili,
'he lifts his head', IV R. 20, no. 2, obv. 7.
§ 92. Another unique usage is Gud. Cyl. A 5, 13, where Sú appears
in the sense of as to, concerning; galu an-dím ri-ba ki-dím ri-ba sú, 'as
to the man \vhose form is like heaven, whose form was like earth'.
§ 93. sú appears in tbe ordinary function of da (§ 97) after infini­
tives to denote purpose. d·ásnan-azag sud slg-ele apin-na sag-an-Sú
il-Sú, 'to raise to the summit of heaven the holy grain goddess, her tbat
sheds radiance afar .... " Cyl. B 11, 19.
§ 94. da. The sign with whicb this postfix is written E2TT
clearly represents tbe right arm of a person, the gunified form ~ T
(eí) being employed for 'hand', Semitic idú. Inasmuch as the latter
sign never appears as a postfix which would be the case if da were
connected with Semitic idú, we conclude that da is apure Sumerian
word 'for right arm ' and frol11 this idea the interpretation must depart.
da l11eans pril11arily wiih, beside, a persono In the psychology of the
language da corresponds to m, the one based on the notion of movel11ent
toward a person, the other of rest near a person or of action exerted by
the persono da may be treated as a noun and augmented '; anda-ne
=itti-su, CT. XIII, 36,21 '. eda =itti,. galu eda-ene, 'thosewitb them',
1. The whole is then regarded as a noun.
2. Aruru formed men 'with him', i. e., worked beside him.
8ú accusative.
8ú absolute.
SÚ of
purpose.
da.
lts functions.