Elementary Sumerian Glossary

dah to add (to); to do, say, give in addition; to help
(ePSD now reads tah)
giš dal, dalx(HU) crosspiece, traverse beam (tallu)
dal to fly
dal, dal-a, dal-dal flying, in flight
dal-ba-an(-na) in between (area)
dalla - è to be visible, apparent, manifest; (to shine
forth in radiance, be/make resplendent, splendid, i.e.
near synonym of pa - è ?) (šupû)
dam spouse, wife, husband
dam-bànda da secondary or junior wife, concubine
dam-gàr merchant (tamkāru)
dam-ha-ra battle (< Akk. tamhāru)
dam-ha-ra - a5 to do battle with (-da-)
danna(KASKAL.GÍD), da-na double hour (a distance
measure, ca. 6.6 miles)
dan6(UŠxTAG4) to clean, wash (Steinkeller, OrAnt 19,
83-84) (cf. gáb-dan6 cleaner)
dar mušen francolin (ittidû)
dar to split
dar-ra split, fileted (fish)
dàra, darah, dara4 Persian wild goat, bezoar
(Steinkeller, SEL 6, 3-7; BSA 8, 50; SEL 6, 3-7) (PSD
A/2 109 reads tarah, ePSD reads durah.)
dàra-maš wild goat stag
dé to pour
dè-dal ashes
de5(g) → na - de5(g)
de5(g) to pick up, gather up, collect; to remove, plunder
(Sallaberger, AV Klein 250) Many still read ri(g);
Selz, ASJ 17, 260 reads /dri/. See also Steinkeller,
JCS 35, 249f.
de5-de5-ga collected (dead animals or people)
(technical term in Girsu and Umma, Heimpel, BSA 8
138 n. 80; Sallaberger, AV Klein 250)
de6 → túm
di → du and du11
di(d) court case, lawsuit, claim; verdict, judgment
di - dab5 to render a verdict
di - du11 to sue, go to court, trial, litigate with (-da-)
(Attinger, Eléments 459-464)
di - ku5(dr) to judge, render a verdict
di-ku5 judge; judging (cf. ki di-ku5)
di4(l) smaller (Civil, OrAnt 21 (1982) 12)
di4-di4(-lá) little ones, youngsters, children
(reduplicated form of tur) W. Farber, Mesopotamian
Civilizations 2 (1989) 9 reads du13-du13-lá.
dib to pass, go, move (by, along, or beyond); to walk
(along), tread; to pass in review (at an inspection, see
Heimpel, BSA 8, 120)
dida sweet-wort
didli individual; individually, singly; several, various,
many; miscellaneous (Lagaš I) (< dili-dili)
diĝir (conventionally dingir) god, goddess
dili one, single, individual, lone, unique (Edzard, AV
Klein 99) ; cf. dili-zu-dè by yourself
dili-bé, dili-bi-šè alone, by oneself
díli(m), dílim spoon; shallow dish, balance-pan (of a
scale) (Civil, AV Biggs 23)
giš dim post, mast
giš giš
dim-gal, dimgul mooring-pole (tarkullu) (Klein,
AV Artzi 120f.)
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