Elementary Sumerian Glossary

é-mar-URU5, mar-URU/ru10 quiver (Eichler, AV
Hallo 90-94; Civil, JCS 55, 52)
é-me-eš summer
é-muhaldim cookhouse, kitchen
é-nì-gur11(GA)-ra treasury (but see disc. under ĝar for
rdg. -ga-ra)
é-ri-a → a-ri-a
é-su-lum-ma rope-box
é-šutum(GI.NA.AB.TUM/DU7) storehouse (šutummu)
(Pettinato AV Römer 278f.)
è(d) to come, go forth; to withdraw, remove, bring out
e11(d) to go up, down; to bring down, raze
ébih(ÉŠ.MAH) heavy rope (ebīhu)
eden (edin) plain, steppe, desert
eden-líl haunted steppe
ég → e
eger (egir) back, rear (side); behind, after; inheritance
eger-u4-da(-k) future days
égi(MUNUS+GI7), egi(GI7) (or ègir, égir) princess,
mistress (Steinkeller, AV Klein 305-310)
égi-zi faithful princess (an OB cultic office, also égizi-an-na)
(egişītu) (Steinkeller, AV Klein 301ff. and
in Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East
[Heidelberg, 1996] 122)
ellag block, ball
eme tongue; language, speech; blade
eme-gi7(r) (eme-gir15) native(?) speech (the main
dialect of Sumerian)
eme-sal fine speech (the women's dialect of Sumerian,
used in laments and temple liturgies and for direct
speech of goddesses)
eme-sig base speech, slander, calumny
eme-sig - gu7 to slander, denounce
éme-da or emeda(UMxME.DA) nursemaid
(Steinkeller, Third-Millennium Texts 62; ASJ 88-90)
éme-ga wet nurse (Steinkeller, Third-Millennium
Texts 62; ASJ 88-90)
ème, eme6 female donkey, donkey mare
en lord; high priest, high priestess (Steinkeller, in
Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East
[Heidelberg, 1996] 103ff.) Emesal ù-mu-un
d
en-ki(g/k) god of water, wisdom and magic, patron of
the city Eridu
d en-líl the chief earthly god, city-god of Nippur
en-na until, as long as; up to, as far as (spatial); as
much as (in extent or amount)
en-na-me-šè how long?
en-nu-ùĝ, en-nu-uĝ5, en-NUN watch; watchman,
guard (cf. MSL XII 101:107, 116:14 contra Krecher,
AV Matouš II 37)
en-nu(-ùĝ) - a5 to guard, watch
en-te-en winter
èn-du song (zamāru) (J. G. Westenholz, AV Klein
348-350)
èn - tar to ask, question, investigate; to take care of,
attend to, tend
engar plowman, farmer
engiz(EN.ME.GI), éngiz (OS) temple cook
engur depths (synonym of abzu.)
enkara, en/an-kará → á-an-kára
enku(dr) fishery inspector
enkum temple treasurer, tax collector; (a mythical
servitor of Enki; the female equivalent is ninkum)
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