mītu
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Variant: mētu
Meanings:
dead
de:German: Deutsch tot
fr:French: Français mort
ar:Arabic: العربية ميت
Distribution: APAP: Attested in all periods
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjectiveroot: mwtII/w (mediae infirmae)pattern: PaRiSG-stem verbal adjective
Logogram: UG₇, ÚŠ, GAM, BA.UG₇, BA.ÚŠ, AD₆
Etymology: Inherited Sem.Semitic Common Sem. root, cf. SED online.
2Attestations
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [en]ūma allika mi-tù-ti Cohen 2013, 151-164: 35 SEAL “when I went to the dead”. Diff. SAD M: mītūtu “state of being dead”, but cf. nišī mītūti in l. 37. See Ib. p. 156f. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) (DN) rettuš rabbat ukaššu mi-i-ta (|| mi-i-ti; mi-⸢tu⸣) Ludlul I 10 eBL “whose gentle palm helps the moribund”. Cf. also Ludlul I: 12 (var. syntax). On ukaššu see kīʾāšu.