salāʾu I

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Variant: salāḫu, šalāḫu
Meanings:
to sprinkle; to infect (mainly pass. in G stative or N)
de:German: Deutsch besprengen; anstecken (meist passiv in G Stativ oder N)
fr:French: Français éclabousser ; infecter (principalement au passif, en G stative ou en N)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: slʾIII/ʾ (tertiae ʾaleph) – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem), NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)
Logogram: LÍL, SUD
Etymology: Inherited Cf. also Aram./Syr./Mand. zlḥ “to sprinkle”, see Sokoloff 2002, 414; Sokoloff 2009, 381; Drower/Macúch 1963, 163, 168, note for the mng. “to infect” perhaps also Eth. ṣalʿa “wounded, superficially healed; abscess, ulcer, sore”, see Leslau 1987, 554 (with further cognates from Arab., Hebr., and Aram., which are, as far as known, unrelated to zlḥ).
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Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) [LÍL-ma?] is-sa-al-la-aʾ-[m]a : LÍL : s[iliʾtu ?] CunMon. 49/2, 6: 25 “(the logographic spelling) [LÍL-ma] (means) he is constantly infected (since) LÍL (means) i[nfection(?)]”. Commentary Sakikkû I 21. new

2GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) mê ana panīšu i-sal-la-ú-ma šumma īnīšu lā ipette imât šumma īnīšu ipette u ikattam ana mê ša is-lu-ḫu ibakki iballuṭ Sakikkû XVI 54 “they sprinkle water on his face, and if he does not open his eyes, he will die; (but) if he opens and closes his eyes (and) cries because of the water that has been spinkled, he will recover”. Corresponds to 63′f. in Heeßel 2000. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [... aru]qta sa-⸢li-iḫ⸣ Sakikkû XVIII 33′ “[...] is spattered with [green-yel]low [...]”. Corresponds to 43′ in Heeßel 2000. See probably also Sakikkû XVIII 34′ (44′ in Heeßel 2000). new

Discussion

The attestation Sakikkû XVI 54 (beneath others) shows that also in 1st millennium, spellings with /ʾ/ and /ḫ/ (for the same word) could appear in the same text (or even in the same entry). They represent graphical variants, probably standing for /ʾ/.

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