gizû (?)
NEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
(a type of cane)
de:German: Deutsch (eine Art Schilfrohr)
Domain: Materials and substances; Objects made of reed
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian
1Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts malkū wāšib kussīʾāt g[i?]-zi-im dadnī ⸢ibēlū⸣ ina gamlika Pohl 2022, 102: 9 SEAL “the kings sitting on thrones of gizi -cane(?) ruled the inhabited world with your crook”.
Discussion
Von Soden 1989 and 1989/90, 118 suggests s[í]-sí-im from sissimu “granary” (hapax, see CAD S 325) and translates “Thronen der Schatzkammern(?) der Wohnstätten”. For the tentative interpretation as thrones of gizi-cane cf. gu-za-lá gi-zi “gizi-chair-carrier” (Wilcke 1998, 50: 25).