muṭṭû
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Variant: muṭṭāʾu
Meanings:
very little, deficit, loss
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjectivenumber: usu. pl.Usually plural
Not plurale tantum, as shown by the OA constr. state
muṭṭā
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root: mṭjIII/j (tertiae infirmae)pattern: PuRRāS
Suggested by MA plene spellings (
de Ridder 2021, 193
)
Etymology: Derived ＜ maṭû II
2Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) qad[ū]m gerseqqî tarṭ[u]p [m]u-uṭ-ṭá-a u suppuḫam ARM 1, 28: 13 ARCHIBAB “with the courtiers you continued loss and squandering”. Readings after Durand 1997, 65, pace AHw 806b nuttû II (now deleted).
MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 12 imērū mu-uṭ-ṭa-ú ša imērī umz[a]rḫi BATSH 9, 35: 10 “12 donkeys are the shortfall of native donkeys”. see ib. p. 16. See de Ridder 2021 for additional MA references. new