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ta=da of
accompanimento
ta of motion
toward.
Compound
repositions.
igi-Sú.
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my hand no hand is comparable', ASKT. 127, 59. esir gissag-ká-nafa
ki-ta im-mi-in-rig, 'bitumen beside the sakkanalfku below I have
. placed', IV R. 6 b 47. kllr-é-ia il-la-ni, 'which is higher than the
temples of tbe foreign lands'. Gud. Sto I 3, 2 : kllr-a-ia il-la, 'more
magnificent tban the íoreign lands', Cyl. A 3, 19.
§ 109. ta for da in tbe sense of accompaniment of persons is late.
da-da-a-ia nam-ba-da-ab-lal-e, 'with tbe wicked 1wil! bind thee', IV R.
13 b 26'.
§ 110. ia of motion ioward, clearly incompatible with tbe original
meaning, is probabfy a confusion with da, § 100. é-kUr-ia mulu sUesir
malla im-iur-ra-ne, '(wben) he with shoes on entered into Ekur', SBP.
218,9.
sagduga-ne-ne sagduga-a-ni-ia ... ba-ra-an-ieg-ga-e-ne, ' their head
t.ohis bead let tbem not put', ASKT. 90, 66-70.
lugal gissar-ia [su-lum ba-ra]-ab-age-e, 'unto the owner oí the
garden he will measure out dates', II R. 15 e 46.
§ 111. Compound prepositions composed oí a noun and one oí the
four preceding postfixes arose tbrougb frequent usage of the combinations
in question. For example igi-Sú means 'unto the face', and
igi-bi-Sú means 'unto its face', Le. 'before it'; igi-ni-ra, 'unto his face',
'unto him'. The noun or pronoun governed by such compounds must
be placed between the component elements since syntactically it is a
genitive depending upon a construct. The following are the principal
compound prepositions.
§ 112. igi-sú, 'towards the face', beíore, over against. igi-uku­
SÚIl-igi-bar-ra-zu ní-a gegallam, 'before the people whom thou regardest
comes abundance in plenty'. igi-ni-Sú si-im-sá, 'before her he introduced'
, Cyl. A 16, 30. su-lal igi-bi-Sú si-sá-a-bi, 'the sulal installed beíore
it', Cyl. B 16, 13. igi-ni-Sú ba-gul, 'before her it is plundered, SBP.
288, 20. igi-Sú may be employed as an adverb; igi-sú mu-na-gín, 'he
1. da-da =astuti may refer to wicked things here.