Elementary Sumerian Glossary

še-er-zi gleam, radiance, brilliance
še-ga willing, obedient
še-ga-bé, še-ga-ne-ne by mutual agreement, with both
(or all) of them in agreement
še-ĝar → šaĝar
še-gín glue (also as paint medium)
še-gu-nu, še-gù/gùn-nu speckled barley; second, late
crop (cf. gùn)
še - gur10 to harvest grain
še-ĝiš-ì sesame (see BSA 2 passim)
še-li pine or juniper seeds (kikkirânu)
še-LÚ coriander (kisibirru)
še-numun seed barley, seed grain
še - ša4 to moan, groan
še-šeĝ9 ripe barley
še-ù-suh fir cone (ASJ 9, 349 n. 9) (terinnu)
še8 ( šéš) to cry (cf. ér - še8)
še21(SA4) (a) (a writing for sa4 = nabû); (b) (an error
for nú, i.e. nux(SA4). See Civil, Iraq 23, 168; Wilcke,
LE ad 35. Veldhuis, Education 284 calls še21 an
"inanimate complement" of nú.
še25 - gi4 to cry out, scream, screech. The old reading is
šix(d). Read now še25/šeg10 for KAxŠID or še26/šeg11
for KAxDÚB. Gudea texts write šeg12(SIG4). See
Zgoll, AOAT 246, 312f.
šed7-11, še4/12/18, se11(SIG) to cool, be cool, cold; to
soothe, calm, appease
šèĝ(A.AN), šeĝ7(IM) to rain; n. rain (also written
IM.A.AN, IM.A, or IM.A.A)
šeĝ6 to boil, cook, heat, bake (bašālu) (Steinkeller, AV
Sigrist 186)
šeĝ9 ripe (grain)
šeĝ9 wild boar; wild sheep(?)
šeĝ9-bar (or šeĝbarx(ŠEĜ9) bar ) Mesopotamian fallow
deer (conventionally "wild ram, sheep," but see Steinkeller,
BSA 8, 50)
šeg10-11 - gi4 → še25 - gi4
šeg12 → sig4, še25 - gi4
(urudu) šèm, si-im (a kind of drum)
urudu šen (a kind of kettle or ewer)
ŠEN → dur10
šen v. & adj. (to be) clean, pure
šen-šen very clean, immaculate
šen-šen battle (cf. the same sign read dur10)
šer7(NIR)-da capital crime/offense, serious "felony"; a
corresponding punishment. Civil, AV Hallo 75ff. reads
NIR-da, Emesal šèr-da, še-er-da (the šer7-da read by
some cannot be proved directly; perhaps Akk. nērtu
"murder" was the original source for a word *ner-da?)
ŠEŠ → sis
šeš brother (probably to be read ses at least through
OB; cf. se-ès = ŠEŠ Proto-Ea 623)
šeš-gal elder brother; school monitor
šéš → še8
šeš4, šéš to anoint, anoint oneself
ši-pa-áĝ → zi-pa-áĝ
šibir(U.ENxKÁR) (shepherd's) staff (šibirru)
(Veldhuis, Education 175f. Civil, AV Biggs 27)
šid to count; to recount, recite, read; to count, number
among, reckon as; to do an accounting
šid counting; line count (at the end of tablets)
ŠID.ŠID feathers
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