gummātu
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Variant: gummatu
Meanings:
summer
de:German: Deutsch Sommer
fr:French: Français été
ar:Arabic: العربية صيف
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Seasons; weather and climate; time
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: fem.Feminine
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Aram.Aramaic (?) Perhaps rendering Aram. *ḥummat- (AHw. 298), from the root ḥmm “to be(come) hot”. This has been argued against by Abraham/Sokoloff 2011, 32 on grounds of phonetics and the absense of a corresponding term in Aram. Zadok 2022, 118, however, refers to JAram. ḥwm “heat” and Old Syriac ḥmtʾ “heat”.
2Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) napḫar 1700 GUR ebūru kūṣu u gu-mat BE 9 30: 16 “all together 1700 kor, harvest of winter and summer”.
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) napḫar 1015 GUR ebūru ku-ú-＜ṣu＞ gu-ma-ti BE 9 29: 15 “altogether 1015 kor, harvest of winter and summer”.
Discussion
The variant ḫummātu given in CAD Ḫ 234f. and AHw. 298 does not exist: In Camb. 131: 7 read kissatmušen um-ma-a-ta (see already AHw. 1557 and CAD U/W 130f. mng. 4).
The only two known references were written by the same scribe on the same day.
See SAD G 24.