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da of rest
with
after motion.
ta of
separation.
ta locative.
76 SUMERIANGRAMMAR
§ 100. da of 'motion toward', apparently incompatible "'1th the
original meaning of contact with, may be due to the desire to express
rest with after the motion. e-da ge-en-da,...ab-gí.:..gí, 'may he restore thee
to the water', IV R. 13 a 44. This construction is altogether replaced
by ta; evidently da is original. Vide § 110.
§ 101. ta is the counterpart of sú, having essentially the force ofjrom,
employed with neuter objects only. The pictographic idea of the original
sign is still inexplicable. é-ta e-a-ni, 'from the house he went forth "
SBP. 282,28. é-kur-ta ... im-ta-ab-e, 'from Ekur he went forth', SBP.
218,11. uru-ta im-ta-e, 'he caused to go from the city',Gud. B 4, 4.
tur-azag-ga-ta mu-un-tum-ma, '(butter) which from apure stall one has
brought', IV R. 4 b 28. ka-bi-ta ugu nu-sál-sál'-e-ne, '(the weapon)
from whose mouth poison flows not', IV R. 20, no. 3, 15. ud-gal anta
su-bar-ra mes, 'a great storm are they which from heaven is hurled',
IV R. 1 a 18. bur-ta nig kur-mu, 'who eats out of a bowl', SBP. 74, 11.
Arising out of the notion of motion from a place, the temporal ta, 'since',
, from a certain time', readily arose; ud tUI'-ra-a-ni-ta, 'from the days
of his' youth " SBP. 256, 17. ud ul-lí-a-ta, 'since those days', SAK.
198 e) 16.
§ 102. ta locative, in exactly the same sense as the locative of the
status obliquus, does not appear to be compatible with the original
meaning. gir-nun-ta ... ba-pad-cla-a, '(when) in the girnun he chose
him', SAK. 34 k) III, 2. lÍm-ta umun-bi na-am-ba-da-an-tar, 'in the
city whose lord has cursed it', SBP. 238, 13. idim-abzu-ta imin-na
mes, 'in the depth of the sea seven are they', IV R. 2 a 32. ta and da
both locative are clearly held apart in gú ídluln-ma-gir-nun-ta-ka e-sú­
tag, 'he left (his slain soldiers) upon the bank of the canal Lumma­
girnun '; glr-pad-du-bi edin-da e-da-tag-tag, 'their bones in the plain
he left', SAK. 38, III, 20-24; yet it is difficult to understand the precise
difference between da and ta here.
1. ~::Tsalí?)· This value derived from gis R = gisallu.
2. So the Sumerian texto