edēḫu
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Meanings:
to cover with patches or a network
de:German: Deutsch mit Flecken oder Geflecht versehen
fr:French: Français recouvrir de taches ou d'un réseau
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbstem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) (stative only), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Inherited (?)
1Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ištânu eṭlu ... lubušta udd[u]q (∥ ud-du-u[ḫ?]) Ludlul III 10 eBL “(in my dream, there was) a certain young man ... dressed (∥ partially covered) in a garment”. Oshima 2014, 94f. (“and fresh (lit.: renewed) in (his) clothing”; reading the traces as ⸢uš⸣ and thus understanding the verbal form as edēšu “to be(come) new”). While IM.124581 might indeed be read u[ḫ] (or u[g!]), BM.99811: 7 shows clearly [u]g.