dakāku II
REVIEW
Meanings:
to make noise; to gambol
de:German: Deutsch Geräusch verursachen; umherspringen
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: dkkII/gem (mediae geminatae) – u/uu/u class (Present u, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
1 Lexical
SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts gù-dé-a = da-ka-ka Or. 74, 160: 29 “to shout = to make noise”. See Mayer ib. 163.
1Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma gušūru issīma giš[…]- nu issû i-da-ak-ku-ku Or. 40, 133 no. 44: 3 “if a beam creaks and the wooden […] creak (and) make noise, (you gather dirt from the beams)”. See Caplice ib. p. 134 (“to make a joyous noise”).
Discussion
Apparently onomatopoetic.