Elementary Sumerian Glossary

du11(g) (dug4) to do, use (aux. verb); to act or serve as.
Forms include: du11 perf. sg.; e perf. pl. & imperf.; di
present participle & infinitive (later, rarely, finite
imperf.)
du11(g) to say, speak (elliptical for inim - du11)
du12 (short form of → tuku, seen especially when
reduplicated)
du14 quarrel (with /d/ or /dr/ Auslaut, see Attinger,
Eléments p. 466f. )
du14 - mú to incite a quarrel
dub tablet, document
dub to heap up, pour in piles
dub-ba-an, gi-dub-ba-an(-na) reed fence-post, fence
of bundled reeds (Alster, Dumuzi's Dream p. 95-96)
dub-dab5 - za to thud, batter (an onomatopoetic
construction, see Civil, JCS 20, 117ff.; Black, AV
Wilcke 35ff.)
dub-lá gatehouse, gateway(?); foundation platform,
terrace; canal locks(?)
dub-saĝ first (mahrû)
dub-sar scribe
dub-šen (treasure) chest (as part of temple
furnishings); foundation box
dúb to tremble, shake, quake; to flutter, flail, flap
(hands or wings)
dubsig(ÍL) (or dupsik) work basket, corvée basket
(often with a wood or reed determinative; previously
read dusu) (tupšikku)
dug pot, jar, vessel
kuš dùg-gan bag (tukkannu)
dugud v. & adj. (to be) heavy, huge, weighty,
important
duh, dudda(?) bran, chaff
dul, dùl, dul5(TÚG) to cover; to envelop, wrap
dum-dam - za to complain (nazāmu); to howl, roar,
cry out; to rejoice (Sjöberg, AV Limet 126f.)
dumu child, son, daughter; citizen (of a particular
city); (member of a class, group, craft) Emesal du5mu
dumu-gi7(-ra) free or "conditionally free" person (cf.
ASJ 11, 217), freeborn citizen; noble, princely child;
aristocrat (Cooper, Curse of Agade p. 240)
dumu-KA (descendent or the like) (Sjöberg, AV
Falkenstein 209-212)
dumu-munus daughter (some read dumu-mí; reading
dumu-sal is obsolete) (logogram is an Akkadian
innovation, not attested before Ur III; see Steinkeller,
Or ns 51, 358)
dumu-nita(h) male child (see also ibila(DUMU.
NITA) (male) heir)
dun to dig
dun to weave
dun(-a) v. and adj. (to be) under the authority of,
subordinate to (see du9(n))
dun5 → du9(n)
dungu(IM.DIRI) cloud
dur cable, cord (Waetzoldt, BSA 6, 132); umbilicus;
bond, link
dur-an-ki(-k) Bond of Heaven and Earth (poetic term
for Enlil's temple complex in Nippur)
dúr, dúr-ru(n), durunx → tuš
dúr base; bottom (the body part, cf. MSL 9, 65:92
Ugu-mu Susa); seat, residence (išdu, šaplu)
giš dúr seat (of a chair); bottom board, wooden bottom
dúr-bi-šè, dúr-ra-ni-šè at the bottom or back, in last
place (physically or in a scale of values) (Civil, JNES
43, 285f.; AuOr 7, 147)
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