šipītu
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Variant: šibītu
Meanings:
suture, seam
de:German: Deutsch Naht, Verbindung
fr:French: Français suture, couture
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: špjIII/j (tertiae infirmae)pattern: PiRiSt
Etymology: Derived ＜ šapû IV
11. Suture (of head); fontanel (when ref. to infants)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts aknuk ši-pi-a-tim ša muḫḫišu AML, 114: 13 SEAL “I sealed the sutures of his (the child's) skull”. See Wasserman 2008, 83. Previously cited CAD Š/3 147 s.v. *šiwītu (now deleted).
12. Of other body parts
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [..]. u ši-pit iškīšu uṣṣi panūšu ittanakkirū u sāmū Sakikkû XXXIII 84 “[...] grows out of [..]. and the seam of his testicle(s), its surface keeps changing and it is red”. new