namarkû
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Meanings:
to be late, delayed, stay behind
de:German: Deutsch spät sein, sich verspäten, zurückbleiben
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: mrkjIV; IV/j (quadriradical; oder mrkw?)stem: NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Akk.Akkadian
2Attestations
NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sittūtišunu ul im-me-rek-ku-ú illakūnu OIP 114, 1: 27 “the rest of them will not stay behind (but) come”. For further refs. see ib. p. 352. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) aḫūʾa lā im-mé-re-ki AOAT 414/1, 142: 14 “my brother shall not be late!” new
Discussion
The irregular imperative muš-ka-ʾ (TCL 13 215: 6), cited as such in CAD N/1, 208f., is rather to be interpreted as muš-šìr!-ʾ (cf. Wunsch 2021, 610).