udugu
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Variant: edigu
Meanings:
(a wooden stick or pin)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed < Sum.Sumerian From Sum. udug “stick, weapon”, although the lexical texts do not equate both terms.
1 Lexical
SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts […] = ⸢ú⸣-du-gu = gizgazû SpTU 2, 53 r. ii 20 DCCLT “[…] = u .-stick = gizgazû -stick”.
1Further Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) alpī ú-du-ga-am lā anad[dinu] RATL, 596 no. T.-L. 3 iii 20 “(I swear) I won’t give (any) cattle the stick (i.e. ‘drive any cattle’).”