daʾāmu II
REVIEW
Variant: dâmu
Meanings:
to wander about, to stagger
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Motion
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: dʾmII/ʾ (mediae ʾaleph)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Inherited
2Attestations
OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) (concerning the sheep of some city elder) [l]ā a-dú-mu-ni MVN 3, 101: 15 “I am certainly not going to run around”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kīma DN ta-⸢du⸣-um-mi ta-su-úr-ri CUSAS 10, 10: 47 (= ALL, 4) SEAL “like DN you stagger, you dance around”. new
Discussion
See SAD D 1.