terku
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Variant: tirku
Meanings:
blow, hit; dark spot, bruise
de:German: Deutsch Schlag, Stoß; dunkler Fleck, Bluterguss
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: trkIIIpattern: PiRS
Logogram: GE₆
Etymology: Derived < tarāku
11. In comparisons, as symptom of skin affliction
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [šumma] simmu šikinšu kīma ter-ke-e-ti kal zumur amēli mali Sakikkû XXXIII 7 “[if] the characteristic of a lesion is (that) the man’s entire body is covered with (something) like bruises (lit.: blows)”. Note the otherwise unattested fem. pl. new
12. Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [ni]kkas u 15 ubān ti-rik sunginnišina JCS 66, 82: 310 (Gilg.) eBL. Cf. CAD T 426 t. 1a.