ummuqu II
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Alternative Reading: ummuku
Meanings:
to defame, humiliate (?)
de:German: Deutsch verleumden, demütigen (?)
fr:French: Français diffamer, humilier (?)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: vowel class undeterminedVowel class undetermined (insufficient evidence)stem: DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix)+
Etymology: Inherited (?) The contexts of the OB attestations suggest a negative meaning, rather than “to care for” (AHw). A connection to (or derivation from) ēmiqu, as was suggested ib., is thus not plausible. The spellings are ambiguous regarding the final radical (either q or k). Note PWS *ʿmq “to be deep”, see Kogan 2015, 116 (with further cognates) in contrast to PS *ʿmq “tough, strong”, from which derives emūqu.
11. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢kunu⸣kkam ⸢šāl⸣ma ⸢lā tu-um!?⸣-ma-aq-šu MSCT 16, 43: 16 ARCHIBAB “ask for a sealed document and don't humiliate(?) him”. See the comm. ib. (alternatively an error for la tu-ma-aq-šu “don’t ease up on him!”). new
12. DtDt-stem (D with t-infix)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DtDt-stem (D with t-infix) ramānšu ú-tam*-ma-aq ītanaššuš u panūšu ītanarriqū Sakikkû XVII 4 “he humiliates himself(?), he is constantly distressed, and his face is always pale”. Corresponds to 10–13 in Heeßel 2000. Diff. Heeßel 2000, 207 (“er es sich selbst angenehm macht”). new