Elementary Sumerian Glossary

NE → bar7, kúm, šeĝ6 Cf. also me-lám(NE) and zú -
gir10(NE)
NE-NE → níĝin
ne, ne-en, ne-e this (one) (cf. ne-e = níĝ-e = an-[nu-ú]
Emesal Vocabulary III 157)
ne-éš → ì-ne-éš
ne-me, ne-meš these (annūtu) (Steinkeller, Sale
Documents 221)
ne-mur ashes, hot embers (tumru)
ne - su-ub to kiss
nè, ne, nì strength, might, (military) force(s)
nesaĝ, ne-saĝ, nì-saĝ first fruits (offering); prime,
foremost. The nesaĝ sign is LAK 159, distinguished
from murub4 only through Ur III.
ni-is-ku finest, select (said of equids)
ní fear, fearsomeness (see major study by Cunningham
in Analysing Lit. Sum. 70ff.)
ní self (especially with possessive pronouns, e.g. ní-bišè
or ní-ba by itself); one's own (with pronouns, e.g. é
ní-za your own house); character, nature(?) (cf. Shulgi
B 10, 77) (Cunningham, Analysing Literary
Sumumerian 70ff.)
ní - búr to show off, make oneself important
ní - dúb to relax, rest
ní-gal great fearsomeness, awesomeness
ní(-gal) - gùr to be clad in (great) fearsomeness,
awesomeness
ní gùr-ru clad in fearsomeness
ní me-lám fearsome brilliance (two divine attributes
which often appear together as a hendiadys)
ní - ri to impose fear upon, oppress by fear, terrify,
cloak in fearsomeness
ní silim-eš(2) - du11 to boast
ní-su-ub crazy person; (an ecstatic?)
ní - te(ĝ) to grow afraid, be afraid of (-da-)
ní-te(ĝ) fear
ní - te(n), te-en to refresh oneself, cool oneself under
(-ši-); to calm down, relax
ní-te self; cf. ní-te-né by himself, herself
ní-te-na(-k), me-te-na, mete(TE.ME)-na his or her
own
ní - tuku to revere, respect, have fear of
ní-tuku reverent, respectful
(lú) ní-zuh thief (cf. nì-zuh-a stolen thing)
nì(ĝ) (níĝ) thing; that which (impersonal relative
pronoun); (abstract noun formative) (The short value nì
is being gradually replaced by the long value níĝ
everywhere based presumably on Proto-Ea.)
nì-á-zi(-ga) violent act (şēnu)
nì-ak-a accomplishment
nì-àr-ra groats
nì-ba allotment, portion; gift
nì-bún(KAxIM) turtle
nì-buru14 harvest yield
nì-dab5 appropriation
nì-dù-a string of (dried) fruit (Pre-Sargonic; replaced
by še-er-gu in Late Sargonic. See Civil, Or ns 56,
233ff.)
nì-du7 a (theologically) fitting thing (The reading is
conventional, but many now read nì-ul "primeval
thing." Cf. nì-ul-lí-a in Ean 1 vi 6 and Urnamma 26 ii
1 and see J. Bauer, AV Klein 26f. and AfO 40/41, 94
with J. Cooper, followed by C. Suter, contra
Falkenstein GSGL I 60 and Edzard in RIME 3/1.
Compare the Lagaš I male PN nì-du7-pa-è, where du7
seems to make more sense than ul.)
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