Elementary Sumerian Glossary

kúšu ku6 shark (PSD B); turtle, tortise (Cohen, JCS 25,
203-210); crab or snapping turtle (ePSD)
L
la-ha-ma (a class of long-haired servants of the god
Enki, residing in the Apsu)
la-la, a-la (male) prime, vigor, fullness, appeal,
handsomeness
lá(l) (lal) to hang, suspend; to spread, stretch out,
extend; to weigh; to pay (in silver or other metals); to
tie, bind, attach, gird, wrap; to harness, yoke; to wear,
carry; to load (a pack animal); to diminish, decrease,
reduce, refine (in some meanings read instead sur5
according to PSD, q.v.)
lá minus (in counting, accounting)
lá-NI arrears, deficit; surplus, remainder, difference
(accounting and math.). Several readings have been
suggested, lá-ì, lá-ìa or lá-ux; cf. Steinkeller, AuOr 2,
137-139; Snell, YNER 8, 228 . In OS Lagaš economic
texts the term is written lá-a.
lag clod (of dirt)
lagab (massive) block, lump (upqu)
LAGAB → gur4, kur4, lúgud, níĝin
lagar, lagal, lagarx(SAL.HÚB) "vizier," a highranking
priest(ess) or official (Wiggermann, ZA 78,
225ff.; Civil, AV Biggs 20)
lagas ki , lagaš ki the city and state of Lagash (see
Attinger, NABU 2007/37 for final sibilant)
lah4-5 → túm
lahar ewe (Civil, AV Biggs 20) (lahru)
làl date syrup, sweet syrup, honey; adj. sweet (as
honey) (cf. Zgoll, AOAT 246, 376)
làl-hur wax; model(?)
d lamma(r) (some still read d lama) female protective
deity, good genie, "(guardian) angel" (Heimpel, NABU
1994 p. 73)
lam → lum
giš lam almond
giš lam-gal pistachio (buţuttu)
giš le-um writing board(s)
giš li juniper(?) (burāšu)
li(b) to be happy, glad
li-li-ìs kettledrum
libir v. & adj. (to be) old, lasting
lil foolish (> lillu fool, idiot)
líl air; nothingness; phantom (cf. eden-líl haunted
steppe, lú-líl incubus > lilû)
limmu, limmu2/5 four (Edzard, AV Klein 101)
lipiš (libiš) heart; strong emotion, anger, courage
lipiš - bal to become angry
lipiš-tuku in anger, angrily
lirum physical strength, athletics; cf. lú-lirum athlete,
wrestler
lu to be or make numerous or abundant, multiply (Akk.
mâdu, duššû, kamāru) (Steinkeller, SEL 1, 5ff.)
lu → lù
lu(g) (lug), lu5(g) or lu5(k) before Ur III to live
(referring to animals); to herd, pasture, tend (animals)
(Akk. uzuzzu, rabāşu) The plural root is sig7 or se12
(see Steinkeller, SEL 1, 5ff., Third Millennium Texts
35, reading lukx or lugx) (see Attinger, ZA 95, 47f. for
distribution of g/k )
lu(g), lu-gú to be twisted, crooked (zâru)
(Michalowski, Lamentation p. 100; Civil, Farmer's
Instructions p. 175)
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