Variant: ašû
Meanings:
to confuse
de:German: Deutsch verwirren
fr:French: Français troubler
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ʾšʾI/ʾ; I/e; III/ʾ (primae ʾaleph, tertiae ʾaleph; ešēʾu, in AHw unter III/ī gelistet) – vowel class undeterminedVowel class undetermined (insufficient evidence)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
Logogram: SÙḪ
Etymology: Inherited Pace AHw 259 ešû V, where the verb is connected with Arab. ġašija “to cover, veil” (see also Lane 2261), it is understood in SEDo to be a cognate of PS ġṯj “to be dark” (Kogan 2015, 34 n. 66; Kogan 2001, 266), cf. Arab. ġṯj “to be clouded; to be confused” (Lane 2230).
11 attestation
Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
⸢a⸣-ši-a :
e-šu-ú
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dalāḫu
CunMon. 49/2, 140: 12 “(the sign sequence) a-ši-a (could refer to) to confuse (which means) to blur”. Commentary Sakikkû IV 7. new
22 attestationsFurther Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
⸢en⸣-né-šu anāku
CUSAS 10, 5: 38 (Gilg.) ↗eBL “I became confused”. On III-ū see George ib. p. 35f. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
libbašu itteneḫpīšu pīqam lā pīqam in-neš-ši
Sakikkû III 40 “he becomes melancholic (and) sometimes confused”. new
Discussion
For AHw. ešû II, see etēmu.
Authors
Eric Schmidtchen, Michael Streck