SumerianGrammar

THE VERB 123
ù-dé [u-e-de] “would you pour”, ibid. 58 ù-gaz “would you crush”,
and see 66, 80, and passim.
A frozen form ù-/u-me-ni-B “would you please . . .” is found in
post-OB incantations, in prescriptions to perform a ritual, e.g., e 4 ...
∞
ù-me-ni-dé, ge“ “inig... ù-me-ni-“ub “would you pour water (in a jug),
throw a (twig of ) tamarisk into it” Falkenstein 1931, 90:28 f.
12.12.2. Connecting indicator [inga]
The preposed particle [inga] occurs in its full form, inga-, in verb
initial position (see 12.12.2.1) as well as after [nu“] (see 12.12.2.7);
it is -Vn-ga- [nga] after a preceding vowel (see 12.12.2.2–6).
The question arises whether [inga] might be segmentized into [i]
+ [nga]. In such a case we would have to define [i] (see 12.9) as
the modal indicator for the indicative (cf. table on p. 112 f.), instead
of giving it the value [ø].
Thomsen 1984, 169–72, only notes an element [ga] instead of
[inga]. In her theory, [i], preceding [ga], is nasalized, so that [inga]
would represent *[ĩ-ga]. See above, 12.9, for arguments militating
against the existence of a nasalized element *[Û].
As a connecting indicator, [inga] stands out by its ability to combine
with at least five positive modal particles (GA-, HÉ-, NA II -,
”A-. NU”-) as well as with negative NU-.
The functions of [inga] have been summed up by Attinger 1993,
297 f., as indicating “et alors”, “et par conséquence”, “(et) aussi . . . que”,
“et de plus”, “(et) de nouveau”, “non seulement ... mais encore”.
See 12.12.2.1 ff. [inga], as a rule, only occurs with a second (or
third . . .) verbal form in a series, and it is only found in first position
when it is followed by a second verbal form with [inga].
[inga] was given much attention in the grammatical lists, both
OBGT and NBGT. Cf., e.g., in-ga-me-en-dè-en, in-ga-me-en-danam—nìnuma
“it is we; we too” OBGT I 410 f. (MSL 4, 51), also
lines 412–418 where, each time, [inga] is rendered by suffixed -ma
in Akkadian.
The NBGT 205–208 (MSL 4, 137) list un-ga, an-ga, in-ga, enga
(in the well-known u-a-i(-e) sequence) = ù “and”, preceded by
lines 202–204 ù, bi, bi-da = ù “and”. un-ga etc. were treated separately
from such strings as nu-un-ga-; na-na-ga-, ga-an-ga-; in-ga-,
“i-in-ga-; hé-en-ga-—an example of the efforts of cuneiform scribes