Elementary Sumerian Glossary

dím to fashion, form, create, build; to be made like,
make like, make into (-šè)
dím-ma judgment, discernment (< ţēmu)
dìm figurine (makūtu) (Sefati, Love Songs 277f.)
giš dimgul → giš dim-gal
diri(g) to be more than (-a, see FAOS 5/2, 289),
greater than, exceed, surpass; to be excessive, extra,
surplus, additional; (also used as adj. and noun)
diri(g) to float, drift, glide; to sail (downstream)
diri-bé, diri-šè overwhelmingly, even more
diš one (the counting word?); a single, certain one
(Edzard, AV Klein 99f.)
du to come, go, move (about) Forms include: du
imperf. sg.; ĝen perf. sg.; su8(b) imperf. pl.; (e)re7 (OS
erx(DU.DU)) perf. pl.; di present participle; ĝe26(n) in
imperatives (Thomsen, Sumerian Language p. 134f.;
Sallaberger, AV Schretter 557ff.)
DU → ku4(r)
du-lum misery, suffering, hardship
dù to build, erect, make; to plant; to apply, affix make
fast, build onto; to detain, hold back; to drive in, insert .
Some now read drù (cf. rú).
DU3 → rú
dù-a(-bi) all (of it/them)
du5-mu → dumu
du6(dr) hill, hillock, mound, "tell" (often confused
with habrud, see Yuhong, AV Klein 374-381, who
states that the Auslaut is /l/; ePSD assumes a /d/;
Steinkeller, AV Biggs 219 n. 2 provides references for
/dr/) (tillu)
du6-kù The Holy Hill (a primeval residence of the
great gods, cf. the Greek Mount Olympus)
du6-ul (or dul6 ul ) to gather (Civil, Farmer's Instructions
p. 92)
du6-úr, du6-ùr (the name of the ziggurrat in Ur)
(Waetzoldt, AV Klein 334-338)
du7(dr) to be complete, perfect, unblemished (šuklulu);
to be fitting, proper, suited for, becoming to (wasāmu,
see Attinger, ZA 88, 182 n. 64 )
du7(dr?) to batter, gore, attack
du8 opening (petû) (Yuhong, AV Klein 378)
du8(h/r) to release, free, let fall away, hang down, fall
free; to wean; to redeem, ransom; open, untie, take off;
to bake; to caulk (the last two may be separate or
different verbs)
du8(b) to equip richly, adorn; to heap up, fill up
(possibly a variant of dub)
du8-du8-a richly laden, equipped
(na4) du8-ši-a topaz(?)
du9 to churn
du9(n), dun5, (sun5) to be humble; to be subordinate to,
under the authority of (cf. the OS adj. dun-a
subordinate to, in the charge of)
du9-na (sun5-na) humble
du9-na-bé, du9-né-eš humbly (ašriš)
du10(b), du10-ub knees, lap
du10(b) - bad to stride, run
du10(b) - gurum to lie down, rest (said of animals)
du10(b)-tuku having strong legs (for running)
du10(g) (dùg) to be good, pleasing, enjoyable, sweet
(fig.); to enjoy, relish
du10(g), du10-ga good, pleasant, fine, sweet
du10-du10-ga best, finest
du10-ge-eš finely, sweetly (said of the voice)
du10-sa companion, comrade
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