Elementary Sumerian Glossary

KÁ.GAL → abul
ka5-a (some now read ka5 a ) fox
káb - du11 to measure ( with a container); to verify,
test, check (Attinger, Eléments 572-576; Civil,
Farmer's Instructions p. 153-163; cf. latāku)
káb-du11-ga (a kind of jar) (Civil, Farmer's
Instructions p. 160-162); "geeichtes Gefäß"
(Sallaberger, Töpfer p. 102)
kadra(NÌ.ŠÀ.A), kádra(NÌ.ŠÀ) present (to a
superior), offering (cf. Attinger, ZA 87, 115, reading
kádra a )
kak → gag
KAL → , sig15, sun7
kal to be precious, dear, valuable
kal(-la) precious; kal-kal(-la) very precious
kala(g) (kalag), kal-la(-g) to be strong, mighty; to
strengthen, mend
kal-ga (or kalag-ga) strong, mighty; hard (/kalag+a/
> /kalga/ like /uzud+a/ > /uzda/)
kalam country, nation (normally referring to Sumer,
see Jacobsen, AfO 26, 9)
kankal(KI.KAL) bare, fallow ground
kar quay, wharf; market
kar to flee, escape; to take away, remove, strip off; to
steal
kar-KID, (OS kar-kid3) conventionally "prostitute,"
but now understood as a class of women not living
under male authority, an independent woman (harimtu)
(Assante, UF 30, 5-97; cf. Glassner, RAI 47, 151ff.)
kár to be bright, shining; to light up, flare up; to
provoke, incite (cf. nu-kár-kár-dè without
provocation) Wr. GANA2 (non-tenû) in OS.
kara6(GURU7) granary, grain store, grain heap (for
reading see Marchesi, LUMMA 111 + n. 569)
karadin → garadin
kaskal road, highway; caravan, expedition
KASKAL mušen → ir7 mušen
kaš, kas beer
kaš-dé-a feast, banquet
kaš4/kas4 - du11 to run; to hasten (Attinger, Eléments
578-586)
kéš(d/r) to be bound, tied, joined; to be locked, closed,
blocked, stopped, sealed. The root has a /d/ or /r/
Auslaut, and the full finite root may be kešedr; cf.
OBGT 12, 5: saĝ kéš-šè-ra-ab = kişşar "bind!" and see
Steinkeller, JNES 46, 57. The past participle is written
kéš-da (kešda da ) or kešda(KÉŠ). Cf.
giš kirid(KEŠDA) hair clasp
ki place; ground, earth; (a term for the netherworld);
place where (as relative pronoun); used before a GN to
designate a state, e.g. ki Lagaš ki "the state of Lagaš";
used to express spatial ideas with PN's or pronouns,
e.g. ki PN-ak-šè "to PN's location > to PN," ki-bi-ta
"from there," ki-ba "here"
KI.A → ki-duru5, peš10
ki-a-naĝ place of (funerary) libations
ki(g) - áĝ to love (for /g/ Auslaut see Sefati, AV Artzi
57 n. 53, Love Songs 355; Sollberger, TCS 1, 141)
ki-ba - ĝar to replace, substitute, exchange
ki-bala, ki-bal-a rebellious, rebel land
ki-bé - gi4, ki-bi-šè - gi4 to return to its original state,
restore
ki-bíl-lá hot, scorched place; ki-bíl-bíl-lá hottest place
ki-búr solution (to a riddle)
ki - dar to break through the ground, emerge from the
earth (cf. ki-in-dar crevice)
ki-DÚR → ki-tuš
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