abu I
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Meanings:
father
de:German: Deutsch Vater
Domain: Kinship and household
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculinenumber: pl.Plural abbūnumber: AssAss: Assyrian dialect (all periods) pl.Plural abbāʾūpattern: PaSFrom roots i--gem. with /r/ as second or third consonant; concrete nouns designating the quality expressed by the adjective
Etymology: Inherited
3Attestations
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts ina šarrāni a-ba-i-ia (var. a-ba-i-iameš) maḫerûte BBVoT 2, 22: 3 “(none) of the former kings, my forefathers”. see also BBVoT 2, 38: 3.
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts ⸢a⸣na kimteša ab-ba-⸢e!?⸣ KAL 3, 14 r. 8 eBL “to the family of [their?] ancestors”. see also RIMA 1, 93: 5 (ab-ba-e-šu).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) PN MUNUS.É.GAL (ša ēkalli?) ina mūte šīmat napišti ikšudaššema urḫu ADmeš-šú tallik RINAP 1, 165: 3 “PN, the queen – with death, the fate of (a mortal) life reached her and she went the way(s) of her(!) (text: his) forefathers”. new