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86 SUMERJAN GRAMMAR
pious servant of his lady', ihid., 2, 11. Here na refers to the same
person as the construct arad. When the antecedent is neither the
construct nor the genitive, the suffix may precede or follow. é uru
girsu-(ki)-ka-ni, 'the temple of her city Girsu " Gud. Al, 8. é-usbarra-na-ka,
, from the house of his kinsmen " SBP. 32, 24'.
The plural ending, on the other hand, follows the particle if it
indicates the plural of the construct but precedes if it indicates the plural
of the genitive. bár bara-ge-ene,' occupants of the chapel " II R. 35,
no. 2, rey. 2. dingir an-na an-ki-ge-e-ne, 'Lofty gods of heaven and
earth', V R. 51 b 31. But gú-gal dingir-ri-e-ne-ge, 'great gúgallu of
the gods', II R. 19 a 19. gud-dingir-rí-ne-ge,' tbe oxen 2 of the gods',
SAK. 54 i) 1, 23.
§ 132. ge genitive, descriptive. mulu arazu-ge arazu dé-ra-ab­
bi, 'may the lord of intercession speak unto thee', SBP. 214, 10.
umun kur-kur-ra-ge nigin-u, (Oh lord of the lands repent', SBP.
292,3. mulu azag-zu-ge-ne, (their lord of wisdom (lives not) " SBP.
sic!
322,22. pasan dupsar-ge an-(da)-ki-bi-ela-Sú ba-si-lag, 'the queen of
writing in heaven and earth wandered', SBP. 330, 25. ueld.nin-girsu-ge
uru-ni-sú ... im-si-bar-ra, 'when the lord of Girsu looked toward his
city " Gud. B 3, 6.
ge after a construct in the accusative is irregular and found only in late texts '.
Even in these cases the oblique genitive is properly indicated by the inflection a
which precedes the ending ge. gar gar-lag-ga4 galu-ba-ge u-mu-un-te-gur-gUl',
'the kneaded food 01 this man purify', IV R. 27 b 51. gissigal' anna-ge im-gid-déen,
'the bolt ofheaven thou didst pul! away', SEP. 200, 16.
§ 133. ge may indicate the adverbial notion of motion toward, an idea
regularly expressed by the status rectus. d·babbar kalama-ge sagga-na '-
1. In any case the possessive suffix placed at the end indicates that the antecedent
is in closer relation to the genitive than to the construct and Dice Dersa.
2, Names of animals and things are not inflected in the plural.
3. AMIAUD, ZK. l, 233 f., attempted to defend this as the rule but lound no
examples in classical texts.
4. Vowel harmony for lagge.
5. Notice the vowel harmony. We expect -ni-sú. (§ 91.)
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