Elementary Sumerian Glossary

šà-ge - pà to envision inwardly (conventionally
"choose in/by the heart")
šà-gu4 plowman's assistant
šà - gur4 to feel wonderful (see Civil ad Ninkasi Hymn
61f.)
šà - huĝ (wr. conventionally hun) to soothe the heart,
appease, calm down
šà-hul-gig hatred
šà - húl to gladden the heart, make happy
šà-húl-la that which gladdens the heart; a glad heart,
happiness, joy (also construed with a genitive: šà-húlla(-k))
šà-ka-tab fast, fasting
šà - kúš to deliberate, take counsel with (-da-)
šà-lá-sù(d) merciful, gracious
šà - sìg to be depressed, anxious
šà-sìg depression, sorrow
šà-sù-ga emptiness, nakedness
šà-sur diarrhea
šà-súr-ra raging, furious heart
šà - šed7-8 to cool the heart, calm, soothe
šà-túm meadow
šà - túm/tùm to decide
šà-zu midwife (šabsūtu)
ša4 → ad - ša4, še - ša4
ša6(g) → sa6(g)
ša6-ga → sa6-ga
šab (a kind of container)
šabra, sabra municipal overseer of fields
šaĝa(LÚxKÁR) prisoner(?); (one to whom an injustice
is done, see Krecher, AV Matouš II 57)
šaganx(AMA.GAN(.ŠA)) bearing mother (human and
animal) (see now Attinger, ZA 95, 274f. for rdg. amašaganx(GAN)
with or without phonetic indicator)
šaĝar(GU7), šà-ĝar, še-ĝar starvation, famine, hunger
šagina governor; general
šáh, šah pig (cf. zé-eh)
dug šakir churn
šám → sám, sa10
šandan(a)(GAL.NI) gardener
šár to be or make numerous, multiply
šár the numeral 3600; adj. numerous, many,
innumerable, manifold, all; n. multitude
šár to slaughter (sheep)
šár-ra-ab-du8 (a field worker)
še barley, grain; (a weight measure = 1/180 gín = ca.
1/20 gram)
ŠE → niga
še(g) v. and adj. (to be) agreeable, willing, obedient
še-ba barley, grain ration
še-du10 (a tree and its wood) (Powell, BSA 6, 115f.)
še-er-gu string of fruit (from late Sarg. on); ringshaped
ornament (OAkk) (Civil, Or 56, 235)
še-er-ka-an - du11 (vars. -ha- and -ga-) to decorate,
adorn (Attinger, Eléments 683-688; Civil, Or 56, 235
n. 10; Sjöberg, TCS 3, 92)
še-er-ma-al-bé proudly (Emesal for nir-ĝál-bé =
etelliš)
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