lamāmu I
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Meanings:
to chew
de:German: Deutsch kauen
fr:French: Français mâcher
Distribution: MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: lmmII/gem (mediae geminatae) – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Cf. the PS root *lḥm “to eat, taste”, see Kogan 2015: 193 (Akk. lêmu). A root variant? Otherwise, the homophon root lmm is attested in Arab. lamma “to collect, assemble”, see Wehr 1166 and Syr. lmm “to collect”, see Sokoloff 2009, 692. Neither of these etymologies appear satisfying.
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Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [i-lam-ma-am?] ikkal : la-ma-ma : ak[ālu ...] CunMon. 49/2, 284 o. 23 “he chews(?)] (means) he eats (since) to chew (means) to e[at ...]”. Commentary Sakikkû XXIIa(?). new