Elementary Sumerian Glossary

zé-eh, zah, zahda(ŠÁH.ZÉ.DA) piglet (cf. šáh) (šahû)
(Steinkeller, NABU 2007 p. 18)
zèh (read now → munus áš-gàr)
zi life; breath; throat
zi(d) to be faithful, trusty, steadfast, true, righteous,
good, fine
zi(-da) adj. right, upright, true, faithful, good; n. right
(hand or side)
zi(g) to rise, raise; to get excited; to remove, expend; to
be excepted, left out (NABU 1994/ 82)
zi-du just, righteous (person)
zi-ga mobilization, levy; (something) raised
zi - gi4 to calm down
zi(-ir), zé(-er), sír, súr to slip, slide; to efface, erase; to
cancel, annul (JAOS 119, 523); to raze, destroy; (to cut
or remove plants)
zi - ir to be troubled, worried
zi - pa-áĝ/an to draw breaths, breathe
zi-pa-áĝ nostril, airhole; throat(?) (Sjöberg, JCS 34,
66f.; Sefati, Love Songs 203, 214) Cf. pa-áĝ nostril
(Molina+, JNES 63, 7f.) (Emesal ši-pa-áĝ; cf. za-paáĝ)
zi - pà to take an oath; to conjure
zi-qùm royal road station (Ur III)
zi-šà breath of life
zi-šà - ĝál to inspire, encourage
zi-šà-ĝál n. (divine) encouragement, inspiration; adj.
life-giving
zi - túm to betake one's life to, to save one's life, take
refuge
zi-u4-sud-rá life of long duration
anše ZI-ZI → sisi
zì(d) (zíd) flour
zì - dub to heap up, sprinkle flour (ritually), offer flour
zì-dub-dub offering flour
zì-sig15 coarse flour (hišiltum)
ZÌ.ŠE → dabin
zíb - gíd to hold the reins (Civil, AuOr 17-18, 184 n.
18)
zikum(ENGUR) heaven
zíz emmer wheat
ZÍZ.AN (read imĝaĝa3?) dehulled emmer (?) See
Cohen, NABU 1990/ 134, for disc. of ZÍZ.A.AN =
/udra/ = utrû (see CAD kunāšu LL); for ZÍZ.A (OS
Nippur) read thus úd-duru5. Cf. ZÍZ = úd = tiktum (a
type of flour).
zu, OS also su to know; to know how, be able; to
acknowledge, make known, proclaim; to learn,
discover; to inform, teach
zu-a, OS su-a acquaintance (elliptical for lú-zu-a)
zú tooth, fang; point, tine (of a tool or weapon)
zú - bir9(NE) (also read gir10) to laugh
zú - gu7, zú - ku5 to bite (off)
zú - gub to bite, eat (Civil, JNES 23, 9)
zú-lum date (Civil, AV Biggs 33 understands the
underlying form to be /zulu m b/)
zuh to steal
zuh-a stolen
zukum(NÚMUN) to step (on), tread, trample
zulumhí → suluhu
zur to break, raze (var. of zi-ir?)
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