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Meanings:
to be(come) weak
de:German: Deutsch schwach sein/werden
fr:French: Français être/devenir faible
Distribution: OA onward(s)OA onward(s): Old Assyrian onwards (ca. 1900 BCE onwards), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ʾnšI/ʾ; I/e (primae ʾaleph) – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtGt-stem (G with t-infix), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix)
Logogram: SIG
Etymology: Inherited Cf. PS *ʾnš “to be weak”, see Kogan 2015, 444.
11. New sense

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GtGt-stem (G with t-infix) et-ni-i[š] akālam AML, 71: 4 SEAL “he is lacking food”. one expects a stative etnuš, as attested in the sim. incantation AML 66 (cit. AHw. 218 s.v. enēšu Gt). new

22. New sense

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) šaqâtu rēšāja iknuš(ū) qaqqaršun libbī kabbarâ pirittu ú-tan-ni-iš Ludlul I 74 eBL “my highly raised head (lit.: he/they (m.)) bowed down toward the ground, terror has weakened my usually stout heart”. Or Dt pret. “became weakened by terror” (cf. Hätinen 2022: 74 “My stout heart was enfeebled by terror”)? new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) [ḫaš]êʾa? ša šūlu un-ni-šu (∥ [un-n]i?*-ši*) u[n]ag[gigu ? ...] kitmurtu Ludlul III 100 eBL “my [lung]s(?), which phlegm had weakened (and) made [(me?)] br[ay(?) ...]”. Diff. Oshima 2014, 100f. (“[..]. of mine are high, its rain, ...[...,” reading [x x]-e-a ša-qú-ú zu-un-ni-šú ú-x-x-[...). Restorations partly according to Hätinen 2022 (except for inagg[agā? ...] at the end of the line). new

13. Further Attestations

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ana e-ne-ši šakinšu Sakikkû XIX/XX 92′ “he is subjected to become weak”. Corresponds to 89′b in Heeßel 2000. new

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