ibbîš
NEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
loudly (?)
de:German: Deutsch laut (?)
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: adv.Adverbroot: ʾbjI/ʾ; I/e; III/j (primae ʾaleph, tertiae infirmae)suffix: -išAdverbial suffix -iš
Etymology: We tentatively derive the word from ebbû “very thick”. For the commentary, see ezziš. ebbiš “purely” makes little sense. Freedman 2006, 54 tentatively suggests a derivation from ibbû “day of wrath”.
1Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma ṣēru ina bīt amēli i-bi-iš || ib-be-eš iltanassi Alu XXIII 54 “if a snake keeps crying out loudly(?) in a man's house”. Cf. the commentary Fs. Leichty 153 r. 9 which interprets the spelling i-be-eš as i-ziz-eš “angrily”. The reading ⸢NIGIN.MEŠ⸣ in CAD S 45b, cited as is in view of the variants untenable. new