bâʾu
91. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) iṭeḫḫē Enlil ana Apišalîm! ib!-tu MesCiv. 7, 12 vi 5 SEAL “approaching, Enlil came to the Apišalian”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kīma itbārūtim (sic) ba-a-at … ḫīlki lū ba-i AML, 2: 6-8 SEAL “as partnership passes, may your labor pains pass”. Both forms are participles (bāʾiʾat ＞ bāʾijat and bāʾiʾ ＞ bāʾī), not statives, cf. the participle bāʾitat ib. 1 (＜ bīʾātu). new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ittī DN mašmaš ilī ba-ʾ-ma AnSt. 33, 148: 34 SEAL “go along with DN, the exorcist of the gods!” new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) i-ba-a-ú-m[a] birqu ša Adad ina ṣērišu ALL, 1 i 10 SEAL “the lightning of Adad swept over it”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ib-ta birqum ša ṣīḫātim elīja ALL, 1 i 12 SEAL “the lightning of love-making swept over me”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kīma kašūšim nadrim ina erṣetišu a-ba-ma BagM 34, 142 vii 1 “like a wild kašūšu -weapon I passed over his region”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kīma titūri [l]u-ba elīšu AML, 117: 14 SEAL “may I cross over it like (over) a bridge”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [Kunuš-kadr]i ina piš[erti a-ba-aʾ] Ludlul IV Sec. B 16 eBL “[I walked (the Babylonian street) Kunuškad]ru in freedom”. Restorations according to the comm. K.3291 r 36f. For the location see also George 1992, 358, 358.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [nā]ṣir ramnišu [me]ḫû i-ba-ʾ-uš ORA 7, 318: 16 eBL “the [sto]rms sweep over the one who (only) [ob]eys himself”. new
22. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) D+D-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) mû ú-ba-ú-nim CUSAS 10, 1: 24 SEAL “waters pass by”. Cf. George 2009, 9. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) rebīt ālija ú-ba-ʾ-ú (var. a-ba-ʾ) nēḫiš Theodicy: 291 eBL “I used to pass the square of my city quietly”. Note that Oshima 2014, 166 has, by mistake, a-ba-ʾu-ú; cf. George 2003, 337.
13. ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem) kī ša … ⸢sūqam⸣ ša nišī ummaka tu-uš-bi-ʾ AML, 122: 8 SEAL “instead of … letting your mother go along the people’s street”. new
Discussion
SAD B s.v. bâʾu I: AHw 117b and 1547b proposed two words in Akkadian, bâʾu I with ā-vowel and bâʾu II with ū-vowel, the latter a loan from “Canaanite”. However, there is no definitive argument to separate the two verbs from each other, and bâʾu II is hardly a loan from Amor., see Streck 2000, 85: Semantically, the alleged bâʾu II “to come ” well fits bâʾu I, and the ū-variant is prob. archaic and genuine Akkadian, primarily attested in OB Mari (i-bu-ma ARM 26/1, 187 no. 6: 18; li-bu-a-am-ma ARM 26/1, 465 no. 224: 15) and Shemshara (bu-ma Shemshara 1, 2: 27), but also in EA (CAD B bâʾu 3c) and perhaps also in OAkk. (ib-tu ZA 87, 23 ii 19, cf. Wilcke, ib. 29). The ā-variant is prob. influenced by /ʾ/ as third radical.