etellu

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Variant: AssAss: Assyrian dialect (all periods) etallu, OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) itellu (beside etellu )
Meanings:
lordly, preeminent; lord, prince
de:German: Deutsch fürstlich, herausragend; Fürst, Herrscher
fr:French: Français prinçier, exceptionnel ; prince, souverain
Distribution: Ur III onward(s)Ur III onward(s): Ur III onwards (ca. 2100 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjective, subst.Substantiveroot: (?) (UR III st. cstr. eteʾal ) pattern: PaRaSS
Logogram: NIR.GÁL
Etymology: Uncertain
8Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts bīt ap[sî e-t]e-el UET 6/1, 117 r. 6, 10 SEAL “the house of the subterranean water is prince.”

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts amākuma ana ⸢bēlti⸣ja ulā e-te-el-le-ku UET 6/2, 386: 7 SEAL “I am a slave-girl, I have no authority over my lady”.

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts e-te₁₀ (DI)-el ⸢pīka⸣ Pohl 2022, 103: 39 SEAL “your utterance is lordly”. the spelling with DI might point towards confusion with eṭlu “young man”.

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) bukur Ellil ⸢Lāgamāl ?⸣ e-t[e]-⸢el⸣-lu u tillassu⸢ma ?⸣ [i]prikū ⸢x ni⸣ ⸢qarrādī ?⸣ Zimrī-Līm Epic ii 12 SEAL “the child of Enlil, ⸢Lāgamāl⸣, the pre-eminent, and his reinforcement unit [h]indered the ⸢... of the warriors⸣”. Guichard 2014, 16 restores in ii 12 ⸢ša?-ni? qar?-ra?-di?⸣, translating thus “Et ses propres alliés bloquèrent la course des guerriers (?)”; cf. also SEAL (“And his auxiliary forces blocked the charge of (enemy’s) fighters”). Especially the the sign ŠA can hardly be varified and the traces rather resemble GÁ. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šarrum zikruš DN e-te₉-él-ma iṣṣammar elī mutī kimtišu Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 31 SEAL “the king, by the word of DN, was pre-eminent and could trust on (lit.: doggedly wish for) the men of his kin”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) PN zikruš DN e-te₉-él-ma tuklassu Itūr-Mēr uršānu Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 33 SEAL “PN, by the command of DN, was pre-eminent and (put) his trust in Itūr-Mēr, the hero”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) īmurma ittašu āpilam e-te₉-él mātiš[u?] šarrum libbašu danānam uṣbam Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 35 SEAL “(when) the lord of h[is] land, the king, came to know his omen sign, (which) the prophet (had revealed), his heart gained strength”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana Nergal … šurbû gitmāla muttalla e-tel-lu aḫḫēšu RINAP 5/3, 78: 2 RINAP “for Nergal … the supreme, the perfect, the noble, the lord among his brothers”. new

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