Elementary Sumerian Glossary

ezem, ezen, (ezeĝ?) festival
d ézinu (grain goddess, divine personification of emmer
wheat, grain) (also read d ašnan)
G
ga milk; suckling (as attribute of animals)
ga-àr(a), gára, ga'ara(LAK 490) cream; cheese made
without rennet (modern kišk) (see Civil, Or 56 (1987)
234f.; Stol, BSA 7, 104ff. with proposed etymology of
E.R. Ellison: "milled (grated) cheese"; Teuber, BSA 8,
26ff. for origin of ga'ara sign)
ga-ba-ra, gáb-ra (OS) herder, herding-boy
ga-ba-ra-hum rebellion (Michalowski, Lamentation p.
78)
ga-eš8(KASKAL) (or ga-raš) traveling merchant,
import-export merchant; collector of tax or customs
dues (also wr. gáeš(KASKAL.GA) in OS) (Sjöberg,
AV Limet 129)
ga-eš8 a-ab-ba seafaring merchant
ga-eš8 - bar → ka-aš - bar
ga-i-ti-ir-da buttermilk
ga-ki-si(-im)-ma clabber (cf. the yoghurt-like modern
Iraqi lebn)
ga-lam → galam
ga-na Up! Come on! (interjection)
ga-raš nisi leek
giš ga-ríg comb
ga-ša-an (Emesal for → nin)
ga6(ĝ) in ga6(ÍL)-ĝá (var. ga-an-ĝá, gan-ĝá) to
transport (Waetzoldt NABU 1992/16) Relation to íl(la)
is unclear; they can cooccur. Cf. the phonetic
spelling iti-ga6-ga6-è for standard iti-gan-gan-è,
Steinkeller, Sales Documents 225.
gáb → gùb
gáb-, gan- (in frozen cohortative verbal forms used as
nouns such as gáb-ra or ga-an-tuš (Selz, RA 87
(1993) 29-45)
gab2-dan6(UŠxTAG4) cleaner (Steinkeller, OrAnt 19
(1980) 83f.)
gáb-gi(-in) guarantor
gáb-ra → ga-ba-ra
gaba breast, chest; front, edge, facing side; coast (of
the sea); frontier; surface
gaba - ĝál to be proud, plume oneself (cf. German
"sich brüsten")
gaba-gi4 counterpart, adversary
gaba nu-ru-gú unopposable, irresistable
gaba - ri to advance against, confront
gaba-ri rival; equal, equivalent; copy, duplicate;
response, answer
gaba-šè - du to go before; to confront
gaba šu - ĝar to hold back, detain; to resist, oppose
gaba-šu-ĝar rival, opponent
gada linen garment, cloth
(giš) gag (or kak) peg, nail, cone, plug (For description
of the inscribed pierced cones which recorded property
sales see Steinkeller, Sales Documents 238-241.)
gakkul (brewing) vat
gal cup
gal, gu-ul v. and adj. (to be) big, large, great; older,
elder, eldest
gal(-la) great, greater (see also gu-la); adv. well,
greatly
gal-bé greatly, well, to a great degree, generously, in a
grand manner
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