eṭemmu

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Variant: iṭemmu
Meanings:
ghost
de:German: Deutsch Geist
fr:French: Français fantôme
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: GIDIM, GIDIM₇
Etymology: Borrowed < Sum.Sumerian gidim
1 Lexical
Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GU₄ : alpi : GIDIM₇ : e-ṭém-mu CunMon. 49/2, 31: 5 “(the logogram) GU₄ (means) ox (the logogram can also be read) GIDIM₇ (meaning) ghost”. Commentary Sakikkû I 17. new

11. Ancestral spirits, transf. "ancestors(?)"

MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts u e-ṭe₄-em-mi-šu ana šakan dabdê ṣa[b]û ? KAR, 128 VAT.10103 ii 30′ “they ye[arn]ed(?) to inflict a defeat (upon?) the spirits of his (ancestors)”. Pace von Soden 1975, 324f.; AHw 1553 emēšu.

22. As disease originator

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GIDIM abi u ummi ṣabissu Sakikkû XVI 15 “the ghost of father and mother has seized him”. Corresponds to 16 in Heeßel 2000. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) qāt GIDIM₇ šaggāši : qāt GIDIM₇ qalî Sakikkû XXVI 53′ “hand of the ghost of a murderer : hand of the ghost of a burned man”. Corresponds to 75′ in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XXVI 54′ (76′ in Heeßel 2000). new

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