salāḫu

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Variant: selēḫu+, šalāḫu, šelēḫu
Meanings:
to jerk, twitch
de:German: Deutsch zucken, erschaudern
fr:French: Français tressaillir, frémir
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: slḫIII – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
Etymology: Inherited
2 Lexical
Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) i[narr]uṭ : i-sal-liḫ : narāṭ[u : sìg ?] se-le-eḫ CunMon. 49/2, 117: 3 “it s[wa]ys (means) it jerks (since) to swa[y (as in Sum.) sìg (?) (which is also used for)] to jerk”. Commentary Sakikkû III 3. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) qātāšu u šēpāšu iraʾʾubū : [ raʾābu ] : sa-la-⸢ḫu⸣ CunMon. 49/2, 107 r. 2f. “his hands and his feet shake (is explainable by) [to shake] (means) to jerk”. Commentary Sakikkû III 48. new

1GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma uznāšu kīma uzun lalê sa-al-ḫa Sakikkû VIII 22 “if his ears twitch like the ear of a kid”.

Discussion

The in CAD S 88 salāḫu B and AHw 1013 assumed var. salāʾu in KAR 132 iv 27/Racc. 103, 27 (in broken context; see Ninssen 2004, 203 and 206) is probably to be understood as salāʾu I “to sprinkle”.

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