daʾāmu I

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) du-ʾu-um idammu : MUD : da-a-mu : .[..] (...) : ADAMA : adamatu MÚD : damu : GE₆ : ṣa⸢lā⸣[mu] CunMon. 49/2, 236: 2 ↗CCP “it becomes very dark (means) it convulses(?); (it's logogram) MUD (is comparable to the spelling of) blood; .[..] (...) (the logogram) ADAMA (means) dark-red blood (since) MÚD (means) blood, GE₆ (means) to be(come) bla[ck]”. Commentary Sakikkû XIV 13. Diff. Wee 2019, 238 ("MUD means da ʾāmu", interpreting the form da-a-mu as the infinitive of da ʾāmu). It is more likely that the logogram MUD is compared her with MÚD (= BAD), which means “blood” (note that damu in lex. contexts is often written da-a-mu). ^new

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) du-um ṣuḫḫum ALL, 11 r. 11 ↗SEAL “laughter is dulled(?)”. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) liptīja ú-da-i-mu ḫasīsīja iṣbatū diglīja umaṭṭû KAL 2, 8 r. 32 ↗eBL “(the demons) dulled my sense of touch, seized my hearing, and reduced my vision”. = KAR 80, after Landsberger 1967, 148 (pace AHw. 146 “meine Male machten sie noch dunkler”).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) šumma du-ʾ-um SpTU 2, 40: 31 (EAE) ↗eBL “if (the Moon) is darkened”. ^new