Elementary Sumerian Glossary

im-dù-a, im-du8-a mud-brick wall, adobe wall
(pitiqtu) (cf. Sallaberger, Töpfer p. 12; Heimpel,
CUSAS 5, 172))
im-du8 dew
IM.DUGUD → muru9
IM.DUGUD mušen → anzu mušen
im-gíd-da long tablet, one-column tablet
IM.MI mušen → ánzu mušen
im-mir/mer (or better tum9-mir) north wind
im-ri-a, im-ru-a clan, family, kin (Selz, AV Schretter
584, suggests reading ní-ri/ru-a)
im-šu(-k) "hand-tablet" (a type of tablet or writing
exercise, a paragraph or extract?) (Civil, AV Birot 75)
im-šu-rin(-na) oven; brazier(?)
im-tuku4 buffeting wind
im-u18-lu, im-ulù south wind
ím strange, alien, other
imĝaĝa1-3 → ZÍZ.AN
imin seven; "many, all" (poetic) (Edzard, AV Klein
102f., now reads umin)
in straw, chaff (cf. in-nu)
in insult, taunt, invective (pištu)
in - a5 to insult, abuse
in-dì(TI), in-di road, course, way
in-dub(-ba), im-dub (heap of earth serving as a
boundary marker) (substantivized verbal form)
(Sjöberg, Or 39 [1970] 81) (pilku)
in - dub to define a district (probably a back-formation
from in-dub) (palāku)
in(-šè) - dúb to hurl (as) an insult, insult
in-nin(9) lady, mistress
in-nu, in-u straw (cf. in)
in-nu-ha (a kind of barley)
d inanna(-k) goddess of passion, love and war, citygoddess
of Uruk (reading d inana has become common,
but Attinger, NABU 2007/37 favors the traditional
reading with double /n/ )
inim (or enim) word; matter, affair
inim - bal to exchange words, converse, have a
dialogue; to interpret
inim - du11 to say, speak, tell (Attinger, Eléments 490-
501) Old syntax: to do words about (-a) something.
The verb also commonly occurs elliptically as du11
while retaining the older dimensional marking in the
verbal chain.
inim-ĝál-la legal claim (OB)
inim - ĝar to put a matter (to someone, for judgment),
raise a legal claim, sue, litigate
inim-ĝar legal claim, complaint; oracular utterance (in
this meaning perhaps read i5-ĝar > Akk. egirrû)
inim - gi(n) to confirm, make firm, guarantee
inim - gi4 to answer, repond; to revoke
inim-inim-ma incantation; counsel(?) (cf. Cooper ad
Curse of Agade 30 & 70)
inim - kúr to (try to) alter the words; to vindicate, go
back to court concerning
inim-ma - sè(g) to inspire, encourage(?); to put into
words or concepts, plan out ( Jacobsen, JCS 41, 85 n.
26); to imagine (Civil, AV Birot 75)
ir smell, scent, fragrance
ir-nun princely fragrance; perfume (cf. Ukg 4 x 11-13)
ir - si-im to smell, sniff
ir -si-im fragrance (erešu)
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