imḫullu
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Variant: umḫullu, anḫullu
Meanings:
destructive wind, storm
de:German: Deutsch Sturm
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian
2Attestations
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts DNN … IM.ḪUL tēšê gabaraḫḫē eli šarrūtišu kimtišu liddû Wilcke 2010, 434 vii 36 “DNN may lay destructive winds, confusion (and) panic over his kingship (and) his family”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [i]m-ḫul-le-e libbišu iṣuddūšu KAL 10, 38f.: 11 “evil winds of his stomach whirl around him”. new
Discussion
The var. umḫullu is pace AHw., 376 not to be explained by sandhi, but by progressive assimilation (cf. Streck/Wasserman 2023, 210), as shown by the corrected reading ra-ki-ib* um-ḫu-ul-li || ⸢im⸣-ḫu-li erbê (ibid. 207: A i 9 || B 4, cited in AHw., 376 as JRAS CSpl. 67, 9).