bulû
REVIEW
Variant: MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) bulāʾu
Meanings:
dry wood, dry reed
de:German: Deutsch Dürrholz, getrocknetes Rohr
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculine
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) MUŠ bu-li-a-⸢tim⸣ CUSAS 32, 27: 20 SEAL “snake of the dry wood”. Note bulī- instead of bulā-. new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ša dullu annê gabbi bu-le-e memēni lā iddinannâ[še] SAA 16, 40: 12 SAAo “for all that work, nobody has given u[s] dry wood”. new
Discussion
The LB refs. cit. CAD B 313 and AHw. 138 belong to gidlu (Beaulieu 2003, 381).