ḫelû II
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Meanings:
to be(come) bright, cheerful
de:German: Deutsch hell, fröhlich sein/werden
fr:French: Français être/devenir clair, joyeux
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ḫljIII/j (tertiae infirmae; gibt ein Wort mit a- und eines mit e-Vokal) – vowel class undeterminedVowel class undetermined (insufficient evidence)stative: PaRuSStative in PaRuS (deviates from default PaRiS)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtGt-stem (G with t-infix), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
Etymology: Inherited Cf. aram./Syr. ḥly “to be sweet”, see Sokoloff 2002, 462; Jastrow 467; Sokoloff 2009, 455; Arab. ḥlw and ḥlj “to be sweet, pleasant”, see Wehr 290.
1DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ušṭībma iratu ša m[al]īliš uḫ-ta[l-lu?-šá? ] (∥ ⸢uḫ-tel-lu₄-šá⸣) Ludlul III 97 eBL “he improved (my) chest and made it (again) (as) cheerful as a pipe”. Diff. Oshima 2014, 98f. (“he relieved the chest which he made sing like a reed pipe,” reading uḫ-tal-⸢lil⸣ at the end of the line) and Hätinen 2022 (“He made fair my songs, which it warbled like a flute”). new