Elementary Sumerian Glossary
Elementary Sumerian Glossary
Elementary Sumerian Glossary
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hal-hal fast-flowing<br />
har, har-har ring, bracelet; coil, spiral<br />
HAR-gud → mur-gu4<br />
giš har-har (a stringed instrument)<br />
HAR-ra → ur5(-ra)<br />
har-ra-an road, highway (Civil, AV Biggs 19)<br />
(harrānu)<br />
HAR-tud (OS) (a kind of domestic servant) (read<br />
probably àr-dú; see also ìr)<br />
harub(DAG+KISIM5xU2.GIR2) carob<br />
haš, ha-aš to cut, split open (Civil, AV Sigrist 42)<br />
haš(-a) (OS haš-ša4) broken, crippled (limb)<br />
haš4, háš thigh<br />
giš hašhur apple (tree, wood, fruit) (Steinkeller, Third-<br />
Millennium Texts p. 57)<br />
hé-àm, hé-a Let it be (so)! (interjection, verbal form,<br />
and substantive; cf. hé-àm - du11 to accede to,<br />
approve)<br />
hé-du7 distinguished (in appearance), ornament<br />
HE2-du7 (read perhaps gan-du7) architrave<br />
hé-ĝál abundance, prosperity<br />
hé-nun, hi-nun abundant, luxuriant; abundance<br />
hi to mix<br />
hi-li (female) sexual charm, allure, appeal; ripeness,<br />
physical prime; luxuriance; wig<br />
giš HU (In Gudea Statue E: a container, or an Akk. loan<br />
is-hu "string" of fruits?); (Bauer, AV Klein 27 suggests<br />
a "rack" or "frame")<br />
hu-luh. huluh, ha-luh to tremble, be afraid of,<br />
frightened by (-ši-) ; to be fearsome; to scare, frighten<br />
(Sjöberg, AV Klein 300 + n. 14; Civil, AV Biggs 28)<br />
HU-ri(2)-in → u11-ri-in<br />
hu-ru(-um) dolt, bungler, idiot, inferior<br />
húb, hub to heap up; to smite, destroy (in this meaning<br />
better reading is tu11, tu10)<br />
húb - sar to run<br />
huĝ (still regularly written hun) to hire; to install in<br />
office; to be calm, soothed, quieted; to be welldisposed<br />
toward<br />
hul to ruin, damage, destroy<br />
hul(-a) evil, bad; adv. evilly<br />
hul-bé, hul-bi-šè evilly, miserably<br />
hul-ĝál evil, evildoer<br />
hul - gig to hate, dislike<br />
hul-gig hatred, hostility<br />
hul - ti to dwell in wretchedness; to be spoiled<br />
HÚL mušen → bibra mušen<br />
húl to rejoice, delight in, be happy<br />
húl(-la) happy, joyous; joy<br />
húl-bi-šè, húl-la-bé, húl-la-e happily, joyfully<br />
hun → huĝ<br />
hur to scratch; to incise, draw<br />
hur, hur-ru-um hole<br />
HUR → àr, har, kikken, mur, ur5<br />
hur-saĝ mountain range, highlands, foothills,<br />
mountains (Steinkeller, AV Biggs 223-232)<br />
hur-saĝ-galam-ma stepped, storied mountain (the<br />
ziggurrat in Ur or Nippur) (Waetzoldt, AV Klein 331-<br />
332)<br />
huš fierce, furious, terrifying, terrible; fiery, red-yellow<br />
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