Elementary Sumerian Glossary

tu-di-da, tu-di-tum toggle pin, fibula (see Klein, ZA
73, 255-284; Sjöberg, ZA 86, 224f.)
tu-lu to loosen, slacken, relax
giš tu-lu-bu-um plane tree or wood
im tu-ru-na → im durun-na
tu6 incantation
tu7 soup (Heimpel, CUSAS 5, 104f.) (written with the
same sign as útul tureen)
tu9 → túg
tu10(b), tu11(b) to smite, strike, defeat (this meaning
has also been associated with the values hub, húb but
PSD keeps them separate)
tu11(b) (var. of dub to heap up ?)
túd to whip
túg, tu9(g/b) (woolen) garment
túg-A.SU → túg aktum
túg-ba clothing ration
(lú) túg-du8 felt maker, fuller (a craftsman making a
special type of woven cloth, Sjöberg, AV Limet 128)
túg-du8-a felt (Steinkeller, OrAnt 19, 85-93)
túg-mu-dur7(BU)-ra dirty clothing, rags, mourning
garments
túg-nì-bàra blanket
túg-šu-gur turban
tuk, tuku (reduplicated du12-du12) to acquire, obtain;
to have, possess; to marry; to play a musical instrument
tuk4, tuku4 to tremble, quake, shiver (Foster, RA 75,
189); to buffet
giš tukul mace, weapon, arms (Civl, AV Biggs 33)
tukum-bi, tukumbi if
túkur(KAxŠE) to chew, gnaw (kasāsu)
túl (public) fountain, well
túm, tùm to bring in, deliver; to take away (see
Thomsen, Sumerian Language p. 133) Forms include:
de6(DU) perf. sg.; túm(DU), tùm imperf. sg.; lah4(DU
over DU) or lah5(DU.DU) perf. & imperf. pl.
Problems remain, however. In OB there are
indications that the sg. forms are túm or tùm perf. and
túm-mu imperf. There may be a link between this sign
and ku4(r) in OS and Ur III (see Krecher, ZA 77, 7-
21); cf. the Ur III accounting phrase šà mu-TUM2-rata
"out of income." The Emesal equivalent of túm is ir.
See Sallaberger, AV Schretter 557-576 for the
following new description: a) bring I = mit sich
führen, geleiten. Used only with living persons or
animals that can move by themselves. Forms are
túm(DU) perf.sg., tùm imperf. sg., and plural lah4 or
lah5 both perf. & imperf.; b) bring II = liefern "to
deliver." Forms are de6 perf. sg., tùm imperf. sg.
túm (to be) worthy of, fitting for, suited to (-a/šè/ra)
(ana ... šūluku) (Sallaberger, AV Schretter 573f.;
Sjöberg, AV Wilcke 263 + n. 29)
túm-ma (field) produce
tum9(IM), tumu(IM) wind
tum9-mar-dú west wind; west
tum9-mir north wind; north
tum9-sa12-ti-um east wind; east
tum9-ùlu south wind; south
tùn (pouch or receptacle); (an ax, often with a wood or
copper determinative, probably to be read àga)
tùn - bar (or read agà?) to split with an ax
tur to be small, young; to diminish, reduce, deduct Cf.
the reduplicated substantive di4-di4-lá (or du13-du13-lá)
youngsters, little ones, children.
tur small, young; brief (cf. bànda)
TUR.ŠÈ → kun5
tùr cattle pen, byre
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