alātu
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Variant: ḫalātu+ (?)
Meanings:
to swallow
de:German: Deutsch (hinunter)schlucken
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ʾltI/ʾ; I/a (primae ʾaleph) – u/uu/u class (Present u, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtGt-stem (G with t-infix)
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (me-li ) = KAxLI = a-la-tum Klein/Sefati 2019, 89 i 29 DCCLT. ∥ nemlû, luʾʾutu. new
1Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma kakkabū ina ṣâti? Sîn izzizūma iḫ-ta-lu-su-ma innamer SpTU 2, 40: 16 “if the stars are present when the Moon rises(?) and he swallowes it(!) and becomes visible”. Cf. ll. 12, 14. See also BM.36781 13: iḫtalusu : ḫelû : namār, “he swallowes it (means) ti shine (or) to be bright”. new