Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
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Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
Hymns, Sumerian; Sumerian language -- Texts
_dumu-mu_: _dumu_ (see line 3). _mu_ is a suffix of the first person
(Br. 1241). There are three pronominal _mu’s_. First, the determinate
pronominal suffix mu of the first person, cognate with _ma-e_, the
personal pronoun of the first person; this is the _mu_ we have here.
Secondly, there is a _mu_ of _mu-un_, the indeterminate verbal prefix.
_mun_ or _mu-un_ is simply this _mu_ nasalized. We have had this _mu_
quite often. Finally, there is another _mu_, an indeterminate suffix,
which is related to _mu_ of _mu-un_, rather than to _mu_, the cognate of
_ma-e_. This indeterminate _mu_ is found at the end of relative clauses.
We shall meet it in the Hymn to Tammuz (see below).
_û_ (see Hymn to Sin, line 17).
_um-me-ši-si-si_ is a verb. _um-me_ is a indeterminate verbal prefix,
but is chosen here for the second person, since _mu-un_ is so often used
for the third person. _umme_ is not a very common prefix. It stands for
_ume_ which is a shortened form of _umeni_. _ši_: ŠI with the value
_ige_ or _ide_ we have seen equals _înu_, “eye” (see Hymn to Sin, line
16). _ši_ here, however, seems to be regarded as a part of the verbal
stem and hence slips in between the prefix and the root. _si-si_ (see
Hymn to Bêl, line 22). The Sumerian idiom means “fill the eye”.
_um-me-ši-lá-lá_: _um-me-ši_ (just explained). _lá-lá_: _lá_ is a value
of LALLU which occurs as a phonetic complement in the word _En-lil-lá_
(Hymn to Sin, line 5) also equals _našû_, “lift up” (Br. 10101).
17. _^dimmer Mer-ri û um-me-ši-si-si û um-me-ši-lá-lá_
O Adad, the day thou didst lift up the eye, the day thou didst look!
_^dimmer Mer_ (see on line 2). _ri_ (see Hymn to Bêl, line 19).
_û um-me-ši-si-si û um-me-ši-lá-lá_ (see on line 16).
18. _û iminna-bi-meš ba-gan-tal-lá û um-me-ši-lá-lá_
During those seven days thou didst blow a full blast, when thou
didst look.
_û_ (see Hymn to Sin, line 17).
_iminna-bi-meš_: _iminna_ is the Sumerian word for “seven”. The sign in
our text consists of seven uprights, four above and three below. The
Assyrian form consists of three above, three in the middle and one at
the bottom. _bi_ is the demonstrative pronoun = “those” (Br. 5134 and
Hymn to Sin, line 27). _meš_ is the Sumerian sign of the plural number
(Br. 10470). The sign is composed of ME and EŠ and means “many”.
_ba-gan-tal-lá_: _ba_ (see on line 14); _ba_ = prefix. _gan_ is an infix
here of adverbial and corroborative character (see Hymn to Bêl, line 9).
_tal_ is a value of RI equal to _zâḳu_, “blow” (Br. 2581). We assume
_tal_ to be the correct value because of the following LALLU = _lá_ (see
on line 16).
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