SumerianGrammar

THE VERB 107
12.8.2.49 [mue“i]: d En-líl-le igi-zi mu-e-“i-in-bar [mu-e“i-n-bar] “Enlil
looked at you full of joy” Iddin-Dagan Hymn: SKIZ 209:5.
Ki-en-ge-re 6 kur-kur igi-bi ha-mu-“i-∞gál “all the countries, let their
eyes be directed to (you, O) Sumer” Gudea Cyl. B xxii 20.
Note: [Ki-engere] is taken here as a vocative. If it were an ergative and if 2 nd
sg. were not intended, one would expect rather *hé-em-“i-∞gál (51).
12.8.2.50 [mun“i]: ki mu-un-“i-KIª G.KIª G “he looks for (someone)”
Lugalbanda I 270 f.
12.8.2.51 [m“i]: hé-em-“i-húl “let him rejoice over it”.
12.8.2.52: No example available.
12.8.2.53: No example available.
12.8.2.54 *[mu-ne-“i]: No example available.
12.8.2.55 [mu]: mu-“è mu-“e 21 (SA 4 ) [mu-V-n-“e] “he gave me as a
name (‘. . .’)” Gudea Cyl. A x 5, 14.
12.8.2.56 [muri]: nam ge 4 -rí-íb-tar ar nam-dùg gú-mu-rí-íb-tar ar ”ulgi
D 384 f., see above (12.8.1.21).
12.8.2.57 [muni]: mu-“è mu-ni-“e 21 “he gave him as a name (‘. . .’)”
Note: mu-“è mu-na(-n)-“e 21 means “he gave (the statue) as a name (‘. . .’) for
his/her (= the deity’s) sake” Gudea Stat. A iv 3; D v 7; etc. Here, -na- refers
to the deity to whom the statue is dedicated, not to the person or object named.
na-ám-zé-eb du 10 -mu-ni-ib-tar ar “let me make a firm promise for him”
(Emesal) TLB 2, 2:36, 38, 41 (”ulgi).
Note: Only a short excerpt of the vast and complicated morphological evidence
for the verb nam tar could be offered; see also 12.8.1.23, 2:56.
mu-ni-ús see above (12.8.2.30).
12.8.2.58 [mmi], [mmeri]:
a) [mmi]: e-ba na-§ rú-a e-me-sar-sar [e-mmi-n-sarsar] “at the dyke
here (on this side) he inscribed stelae” Ent. 28/29 ii 4–5.
tu
mu“en -min-nam sa∞g-ba eren ì-mi-du [i-mmi-n-du] “he stuck ‘cedar’
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(twigs) at the heads of two pigeons (of his)” Ean. 1 obv. xviii 4, xxi
16, etc.