Elementary Sumerian Glossary

idim fierce, wild
giš ig door
igi eye; sight, vision, view; face, countenance; front
igi-a - gub → gub
igi-a - sa6 to be favored, pleasing in the eyes of
someone.
igi - bar to look at, gaze at, regard (Krecher, AV
Kutscher 108-111)
igi(-šè) - du to go at the fore, precede
igi-du harbinger, vanguard, one who goes at the fore
(cf. palil)
igi - du8 to see, look at; to experience
igi-ésir (a kind of bitumen, perhaps "surface crude
bitumen") (pan ittî) (Civil, NABU 1989/62)
igi - ĝál to see, look upon, look into; to comprehend
igi-ĝál outlook, view; comprehension, intelligence,
wisdom; wise person
igi - ĝar to regard, gaze at; to confront, face
IGI.GAR → kur7
igi - gid2 to look angrily at (nekelmû)
igi - íl to raise the eyes toward, look towards, regard
igi - kár to inspect, examine (Steinkeller, ASJ 4 (1982)
149-151)
igi - lib/lib4(IGI) to be sleepless
igi-niĝin-na-ka in the twinkle of an eye
igi-nim upper (land); above
igi-nu-du8 (in Pre-Sarg. Lagash, a class of menial
workers who could be bought and sold)
igi-NUM-ĝál (a fraction, e.g. igi-3-ĝál one third)
igi - ri to set eyes upon, gaze at
igi - saĝ5(LAK 159)/zàĝ(ŠID) to examine, check; to
select (nasāqu, bêru) (Proto Ea 557)
igi - sè(g) to look at, inspect
igi-šè before, in(to) the presence of; often in the
phrases igi PN-ak-šè or igi-PRONOUN-šè
igi-te-en meshes of a net
igi-tur - gíd to sneer at, distain
igi-zu → i-gi4-in-zu
iku (an area measure = 1/18 bùr = 100 sar = ca. 3,528
sq. meters)
íl to lift, raise, bear, carry; to bear (fig.), endure
ÍL(-ĝá) → ga6(ĝ)
giš íldag poplar
íldu(m) clan
giš ilar(ŠUB), illar, illuru throw-stick, spear, or javelin
(?) (see Römer, AfO 40/41, 32-38) (cf. giš ĝešpa)
íldag, ildag4 poplar(?) (ildakku, adaru)
ilimmu nine (Edzard, AV Klein 103)
im clay, earth (as building material); tablet
im wind (can also be read → tum9, tumu, tu15(m))
im rain (probably to be read šeg7)
im(-ma) previous year (in OS; later writing is mu-imma,
cf. šaddagda)
IM.A rainstorm(?) (see Flückiger-Hawker, Urnamma
p. 222)
im-babbar, im-bábbar gypsum (gaşşu)
im-dub → in-dub
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