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mu-da.
sag-Sú.
su-ta.
Position
of suffixes.
80 SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
21447 rey. 6. mu-zu-sútúr ge-im-si-da-da, 'for thee shall one build
the fold', Cyl. B 22, 17. Grain is assigned, mu-ursag-tar-sú, 'for
Ursagtar', B. M., 17750, 1, 6'. 10 gin kubabbar mu asag 18 gan Sú,
, 10 shekels of silyer for a field of 18 gan' (interest or rent is meant),
B. M., 17752,1,92•
§ 119. mu ... dé(da),only POEBEL, no. 10,24, mu é-da-udé, 'beeause
of the ereetion of a house'.
§ 120. sag ... sú, 'for, or, at the head', is employed in two senses
aeeording to the interpretation of sag, whieh means literally , head, top "
whenee sag-Sú = above, superior to; dúg-ga-zu ... sag-bi-Sú e-a-ám,
'thy word arises above all' '. sag is, however, more often taken in the
sense of ' one " 'one head of oxen, sheep, slaves ete.' Consequently
sag-sú means ' in substitution for '. 1 gud-gis sag áb 10 Sú =' one OX,
reached theage ofvirility, in plaeeof aeow ten years old', B. M. 19064.
1 an'su nitag sag ansu su-gi Sú, 'one mature mule in place of an old
mule', PINCHES, Amherst, 38 rey. 1,3.
§ 121. su ... ta, 'from the hand of', 'from'. su d·nannar-twn ta,
'from Nannartum (he reeeived two sealed tabletsr, POEBEL, no. 42,11'.
§ 122. The suffixes ra, sú, da, ta should logieally follow all others,
as in uru-ni-ta, 'from his eity', lugal-ni-ir, , for his king', etc. Exceptions
oecur which are difficult to explain. ana d. enlila-da zag-di-a-na gastin
nam-dug-ga-e-da-na = 'in his rivaling with Anu and Enlil, in his
makingabundant the wine', ASKT. 80,19. ta oceurs before the eonstruct
ending ka in gú íd·lwnmagirnun-ta-ka, 'at the bank ofthe river L.',
SAK. 38, 11I 205• For the ordinary eonstruction ef. úr d. ininni-ka-Sú
1. AIso lines 11-16, etc.
2. See also PINCHES, Amherst, no. 16; REISNER,TU. no. 256. DP. 138 end.
3. Literally, 'above it, them'. Gud. CyI. A 4, 11. A similar construction in
sag-an-sú il-Sú = to raise to the summit of heaven, CyI. B 11,20.
4. For the compound en-sú, ' until, up to, unto', see the Glossary.
5. Perhaps the real construction here is 'at the bank of the river (which comes)
from Lummagirnun'.