Elementary Sumerian Glossary

máš-anše herd, (wild) animals
máš-ĝi6(-k), maš-ĝi6 ominous dream (lit. "kid of the
night")
máš-saĝ bellwether, leader
máš-šu-gíd(-gíd) haruspex, diviner
maškim commissioner, deputy, inspector, bailiff
me divine power, attribute, office
me silence, dumbness, daze
me, -m to be (copula)
me- where, in the phrases me-a where(in), me-ta/da
wherefrom, whence, me-šè whereto, whither
me-dím bodily members, features
me-lám divine radiance, brilliance, splendor, aura, halo
(now being read me-lem4, see Krecher, ZA 63 [1974]
199, or me-lim4, see Attinger, NABU 2008 p. 104 )
me-li-e-a Alas! Woe!
me-te (var. ní-te) fitting, proper thing; ornament(?)
(simtu) (Cunningham, Analysing Literary Sumerian
76f.)
me-te - ĝál to be fitting
me-te-na → ní-te-na
me-téš/te-eš - i-i to praise, extol
mè battle, war
men, OS men4 (a kind of crown or turban)
mes (strong, vigorous) youth, young man
giš mes (a native tree/wood used to make furniture) (Van
de Mieroop, BSA 6, 159f.) (mēsu)
mi-ri → mir
giš mi-rí-tum (a stringed instrument)
mi-tum → giš mitum
mí → munus
mí - du11, mí-zi(-dè-eš) - du11 to treat carefully, gently;
to take care of, provide for, cherish, nuture; to adorn,
decorate; to flatter, praise, extol rightly (also with
special verbal prefix i-ri-) (Attinger, Eléments 603-
618)
MÍ.ÚS.DAM → ĝitlam
MÍ.ÚS.SÁ son-in-law, brother-in-law (Steinkeller,
Third-Millennium Texts 37-38; Sjöberg, AV
Falkenstein 221-225.) Now often read mussa (PSD) or
mussa sá . Cf. nì-MÍ.ÚS.SÁ
MÍ.ÚS.SÁ-tur son-in-law (Sjöberg, AV Falkenstein
225f.)
MÍ.ÚS.SÁ mušen pelican or crane(?) (read gambi ?)
(Veldhuis, Education 242-243)
mìn, min two (Edzard, AV Klein 100)
mìn-na-ne-ne, mìn-a-bi the two of them, both of them
mir, mi-ri, me-ri v. to be enraged; n. rage; adj. raging
im mir, im mer → im-mir, tum9-mir
giš mitum(TUKUL.AN), mi-tum divine weapon, mace
(also read mitta or midda; cf. mítum(TUKUL. BAD)
and other similar writings) (miţţu)
mu name, fame; year; line (of writing)
mu NOUN-ak-šè, mu-PRONOUN-šè because of, in
place of, someone or something
mu-gub(-ba) assigned lines, writing exercise, model
tablet
mu-im-ma (in the) previous year (wr. im-ma in OS)
mu-lu (Emesal form of lú)
mu - pà(d) to reveal, call the name, invoke, name
someone (cf. mu lugal(-la) - pà(d) to swear by the
king's name) (Sallaberger, AV Sigrist 159ff.)
mu(-šè) - sa4 to name, call as a name
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