gurnu

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Variant: gunnu
Meanings:
average, mediocre quality
de:German: Deutsch Durchschnittsqualität
Distribution: OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Domain: Quality
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
5Attestations

OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts nuḫitimmī gu₅-ur-na-am urrirma OA Sarg.: 37 SEAL “my cook let g. (-meat?) burn”. In view of the occurrence of kursinnu “lower leg, shank” in l. 27, it is possible that here, too, we should read ku-ur-<sí>-na-am.

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [ina] libbū gu-un-nim šanîm […] nuzakkīma AbB 7, 84: 11 ARCHIBAB “we have dehusked [...] from among the second average quality (barley)”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 18 GÚ SÍG gur-nu ARM 30, 447 no. M.6700: 4 ARCHIBAB “18 garments of medium-quality wool”. Cf. ib. ll. 10, 16, 22. Cf. Durand 2009, 14 with a different interpretation. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) kīma ḫimēti šamna ⸢gu-un-na⸣ Gilg. SB X 272 eBL “instead of ghee, cheap oil (is given to a fool)”. See Kaskal 17, 241 BM 34160+BM 34306.

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢KAŠ ?⸣ gur-nu SAA 12, 48: 14 SAAo “beer of medium quality”. new

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