luʾtu I
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Variant: lūtu
Meanings:
debility, feebleness; contamination
de:German: Deutsch Schwäche, Kraftlosigkeit; Verunreinigung
fr:French: Français faiblesse, fragilité ; contamination
Distribution: OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuStFrom roots I-w instead of PuRuSt. Expresses verbal content or place of the verbal content.
Etymology: Inherited (?)
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) lu-uʾ-tum = kišpū CunMon. 49/2, 74: 44 “contamination (refers to) sorcery”. Commentary Sakikkû III 46. new
2Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) birkīja iltawī lu-tum CUSAS 10, 5: 7 (Gilg.) eBL “feebleness enclosed my knees”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢lu-uʾ⸣-tum ṣabtassu Sakikkû III 46 “contamination seized him”. See similar also Sakikkû III 48 (partly restored), 49; cf. also Sakikkû XIV 180′. new
Discussion
Forms with the spelling lu-ʾ-tV(K) may also belong to luʾʾītu.