_ka_, sign-name KÂGU, is a postpositive sign of the genitive. The sign KÂGU (discussed below) is often used in this way, but it has several values and is used to express a large number of ideas, _ka_ as a postposition is a dialectic form of _ge_(KIT). _še-ir-ma-al_ is ES for the EK _nir-gal_, _š_ changing to _n_ and _m_ to _g_ (MSL. p. XI). It is translated into Assyrian by the word _etellu_. _še-ir-ma-al_ consists then of two parts; stem _še-ir_ and suffix _ma-al_. Strictly, _še-ir_ is “lord” and _še-ir-ma-al_ is “lordship”. _še-ir_: _e_ and _i_ appear generally to be distinct sounds, but they combine, just as the two _u_’s combine in _mu-un_, making _mun_, and as the two _a_’s combine in _na-àm_, making _nam_. Evidently the weaker sound is absorbed by the stronger, hence _še-ir_ becomes _šêr_, “ruler”, which could be represented by NISIGÙ (JA., 1905, p. 113, also Br. 4306). _še_ is perhaps a Semitic value coming from _šê’u_, “grain”. The original sign is a picture of a head of grain like wheat or oats. The name of the sign is Û-UM. The sign occurs in line 20 as an ideogram. _ir_ is also Semitic value of the sign GAḲ-GUNÙ. We shall meet the sign used as a verb equal to _kamû_, “bind”. _ma-al_, phonetically written for _mal_, is an ending which adds to _šêr_ the idea of “having”; hence _še-ir-ma-al_ means “having rule”. _ma_: we shall find MAMÛ used mostly as a noun, but it may occur as a verbal prefix or as a phonetic complement. _al_: the sign has only one value, _al_, whose use is principally syllabic. The sign-name is ALLU. _nì-te-na_: nì-te is the main word with _na_ as a suffix. _nì-te_: _nì_ and _te_ stand related to each other as object and cognate verb, meaning “fear a fear”. The affinity of _nì_ and _te_ is shown by the fact that the sign for _nì_, called IMMU, may have the value _tu_ (see Br. 8355), then the object and verb would be _tu-te_, “fear a fear” (see Fossey in JA., 1905, p. 128). _nì-te_ may mean “self” just as _nì_ may stand not only for “fear” but for that which causes fear as _Rammânu_, “the storm-god”, and then by way of erroneous association for _ramânu_, “self”. _nì_: the sign IMMU is one of the principal signs that originally denoted “the quarter of the heavens”. It is used to signify “storm” and many ideas connected with storm. _te_: TÊMMÊNU originally meant “orientation”, then “to approach hostilely”; hence _nì-te_ meant “approach of storm”. _na_ is an indeterminate suffix, but the context shows that it means “thy”, so that _nì-te-na_ means “thyself” (see _na_ above). 2. _^dimmer Mu-ul-lil ù-mu-un na-àm-zu-ka ... še-ir-ma-al nì-te-na_ O Bêl, lord of wisdom, ........ supreme by thyself!