lētu

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Variant: lītu
Meanings:
cheek; side
de:German: Deutsch Wange; Seite
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) te-bàd-da = le-et dūrim ZA 94, 230 i 10 “side of the wall”. new

01. Cheek (as body part)
12. In prepositional phrases

OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) al-le-ti GN FAOS 7, Nar C 1: 139 “near GN”. new

33. In construct state as preposition

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [l]e-et bitqim Fs. Böhl, 360: 5 “neighboring the sluice gate”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (field) ša le-et tillim FAOS 2, 178: 22 “next to the hill”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) le-et meḫṣim MHET II/1, 6: 15 “neighboring the plowed land(?)”. new

Discussion

For the OA instances CCT 3, 7a: 26; ICK 1, 4: 15 and BIN 4, 145: 1, mentioned in CAD L 151b s.v. lētu “cheek” 2c), see litu; le-e-tí-im in TCL 14, 53 r. 7 rather belongs to OA liwītu.

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