mušamšû
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Meanings:
wandering by night, wakeful
de:German: Deutsch nachts wandernd, schlaflos
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: mšjIII/j (tertiae infirmae)pattern: mušaPRiSŠ-stem participle
Etymology: Derived ＜ šumšû
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [gud] ⸢zal⸣ gud za-al = ⸢al-pu-um⸣ mu-ša-am-⸢šu⸣-ú Fs. Wilcke, 141: 3 “sleepless ox”. List of insults. new
2Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) mu-šam-šu-ú illiku SpTU 5, 230: 8 eBL “(after) the wakeful had gone”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) eṭemmu mu-šam-šu-ú ṣabissu Sakikkû XXII 40 “a wakeful ghost has seized him”. Corresponds to 51f. in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XVIII 10 (17f. in Heeßel 2000) ([... mu-ša]m-šu-u). new
Discussion
See SAD M 93.