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Variant: OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) kē
Meanings:
if, like
Grammar:
pos: subj.Subjunction
3Attestations

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts ki lūdirka ki lurāmki ALL, 11: 1 SEAL “How I want to embrace you! How I want to love you!” As adverb (cf. AHw. 469 kī B).

NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DN u DN₂ kī mamm [a] bīt abīka īteṭ [ru] u ki-i a-di-i ina šībūtu u littūtu bīt abīka tulabbaru SAA 17, 5: 7 “I swear by DN and DN₂ that nobody will take away the house of your father and that you indeed will make last the house of your father a long time in old age and in senility”. new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ki- [i] kibtu u ki- ⸢i⸣ saḫlê bēlu lušēbilaššu AOAT 414/1, 103: 8f. “may the lord send him either wheat or cress”. new

Discussion

For kī + noun “in the way of” see Mayer 2009, 431f., 439 with refs. .

OA kē, see GOA § 12.7.

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