Elementary Sumerian Glossary

uru (ki) , úru city, town; (referring to a specific city?)
Most now read iri with Edzard, AV Civil 77-79, but
see Lambert's strenuous rebuttal, AuOr 10, 256-258.
Attinger, ZA 88, 167 n. 11, states that the OB writing
úru is "in origin certainly the Emesal form of iri"; see
also NABU 2008 p. 104.
uru-bar(-ra) outskirts, suburbs
uru4 to plow, till
uru16(n)(EN), uru17(ULU3), u18(ULU3)-ru high, lofty,
giant; powerful, mighty, strong (Ludwig, Išme-Dagan
107-113; Alster, AV Klein 10f.)
urudu, uruda (also a-ru12(EN)-da in Presargonic
Lagaš) copper (Reiter, AOAT 249, 149ff.) (Perhaps <
IE *roudhous, Foster, Umma in the Sargonic Period
33; but see also suggestion of Yuhong, AV Klein
388f.)
urugal (or irigal) netherworld; grave (poetic)
us-ga (a kind of priest?); treasury(?) (conventionally
translated as "fattening pen") (see Michalowski,
Lamentation p. 104f.)
ús to be adjacent to, border on, come or bring up next
to (-e); to lie or lean against, upon ; to follow, go
immediately behind, chase
kuš usàn, ù-sa-an whip (for construction and parts see
Civil, Farmer's Instructions p. 72)
ús (uš?) length, long side (in measurments)
usar, ušar, ùsar, ùšur friend, neighbor; cf. ùsar dagi4-a
"neighbor" (Steinkeller, Sales Docu-ments 242f.)
ussu eight (Edzard, AV Klein 103)
usu, ù-su physical strength, power; labor-force
uš building lot, foundation (platform)
uš-bar weaver
úš death; (blood(?) perhaps read uri4 and connect with
ùri?)
úš(TIL), ug7(TIL), ug5(BÀD) to die In OS úš is used
for imperf. sg., ug5/ug7 elsewhere. In Ur III Drehem,
ug7 is used for a group of dead animals of the same
kind, ug7-ug7 for a variety of dead animals
(Sallaberger, AfO 40/41, 53; Heimpel, JAOS 119, 523
contra Steinkeller, ZA 71, 25). The úš vs. ug7
distinction may not have been maintained much
beyond the Ur III period.
uš11(KAxÚŠ) deadly spittle, venom, poison (cf. uh
and note that uš11 also has the value uh4)
ušbar mother-in-law
úšu thirty (Edzard, AV Klein 105)
ušum serpent
ušumgal(GAL+UŠUM), ušum-gal great serpent,
"dragon" (poetic)
utu sun(light); the sun god Utu, city-god of Larsa
(d) utu-è sunrise, east (some read u4-è when
determinative is lacking)
utu- šú → u4-šú
útug, údug mace (reading šíta is obsolete)
útul tureen (written with the same sign as tu7 soup)
uz mušen (wild) duck (Veldhuis, Education 303) (the
determinative is often omitted to avoid a double HU
sign)
ÙZ → uzud
uzu flesh, meat; determinative for body parts and meat
cuts
uzu-a-bala meat broth (ummar mê šīri) (Steinkeller,
BSA 8, 49 + n. 5)
uzud(ÙZ) (female) goat Some maintain the old
reading ùz; others hypothesize a form ud5. Steinkeller,
Third-Millennium Texts 47, assumes uzud loses the
second /u/ when another vowel follows, becoming
/uzd/.
uzud-saĝ bellwether; foremost one, leader
uzug5, usug5 sexually unclean (syllabic writings exist,
especially in Gudea texts, e.g. ú-sig)
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