Elementary Sumerian Glossary
Elementary Sumerian Glossary
Elementary Sumerian Glossary
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lu(-úb) nisi turnip(?); bean(?) (Akk. luppu)<br />
lu-lim → lulim<br />
lú person, man; someone; person in charge (Jacobsen,<br />
AV Kutscher 69ff. "boss"); the one who (relative<br />
pronoun) (Emesal mu-lu) Cf. lú-ùlu<br />
lú-bappir, lú-bàppir (OS) brewer (cf. lunga)<br />
lú-bar-ra outsider, foreigner, stranger<br />
lú-érim(-du/ĝál) enemy<br />
lú-gi-di-da flutist (Sjöberg, AV Limet 137)<br />
lú-huĝ-ĝá hired man, hired worker; the constellation<br />
Aries<br />
lú-igi-níĝin (an elite class of citizens in Lagaš I<br />
administrative texts)<br />
lú-kar one (in charge) of a harbor district (Sjöberg,<br />
AV Limet 127 + n. 6)<br />
lú-kar-ra fugitive, refugee<br />
lú-kaš4-e runner<br />
lú-ki-inim-ma, lú-inim-ma witness<br />
lú-kin-gi4-a messenger<br />
lú-kúr(-ra) stranger, foreigner, enemy<br />
lú-la-ga (an outlaw, perhaps a livestock rustler)<br />
(Heimpel, BSA 8. 106f.)<br />
lú-lirum athlete, wrestler<br />
lú-lul treacherous person, traitor<br />
lú-mah (a high-ranking priest, the male counterpart to<br />
the ereš-diĝir priestess); (an ecstatic priest?) (see<br />
lumahhu, mahhû)<br />
lú-na-me (or just na-me) no one, someone<br />
lú-nì-zuh (or lú nì-zuh ?) thief<br />
lú-nisi-ga vegetable gardener (cf. YOS 18, 115 iii 24)<br />
(lú-nisi in Lagaš I texts)<br />
lú-túg-du8 → túg-du8<br />
lú-u5 mounted courier<br />
kuš lu-úb leather bag (luppu)<br />
lú-ùlu, lú-u18-lu men, people; human beings,<br />
humanity, mankind (< *lú-lú)<br />
lú-ur5-ra lender, creditor; debt-collector (Oppenheim,<br />
Eames TT 6)<br />
lú-uzug5-ga a sexually impure or unclean person<br />
lú-zu-a, OS lú-su-a someone well known,<br />
acquaintance (also written elliptically just zu-a)<br />
lù, lu to be(come) disturbed, stirred up, blurred,<br />
confused; to mix<br />
lu5(g) → lu(g)<br />
lub(-bi) (with wood or copper determinative) (a kind<br />
of axe) (Civil, Farmer's Instructions p. 149)<br />
lugal king, master; owner<br />
lúgud(-da) short, small (Civil, AV Biggs 29)<br />
luh to be clean; to clean, wash; to purify, refine<br />
lukur (a kind of priestess); (a cloistered woman,<br />
nadītu)<br />
LUL → lu(g), nar<br />
lul v. & adj. (to be) false, lying, deceitful, misleading,<br />
treacherous (opposite zi(d))<br />
lul lie, falsehood; treachery, danger<br />
lul-ba furtively, treacherously<br />
lul(-da) - du11 to speak falsely, tell a lie (Attinger,<br />
Eléments 597f.)<br />
lul-da, lul-du falsely (lul-da < *lul-du-a like niga <<br />
*nì-gu7-a)<br />
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