sinnūru
DRAFT
Variant: sillurmû, sîn-lurmâ
Meanings:
night/day blindness
de:German: Deutsch Nacht-/Tagblindheit
fr:French: Français cécité nocturne/diurne
Distribution: MB-Bo.MB-Bo.: Middle Babylonian texts from Boğazköy/Hattuša (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Uncertain Cf. also Aram./Syr. šmrmr, šmrmrʾ (šmarmar) “night blindness”, see Sokoloff 2009, 1576; Sokoloff 2017, 558. Cf. also Hebr. sanwērīm “day and night blindness” (with transl. in Aram. as šabrīrē), cf. Stol 1986, 296f.
Discussion
Cf. Stol 1986. Accordingly, sinnūru (MB-Bo.) may represent the older form of sillurmû (sîn-lurmâ in 1st mill. sources, probably a learned etymology). The 1st mill. forms seem to suggest a learned etymology.