pūtu
DRAFT
Meanings:
forehead, front
de:German: Deutsch Stirn
Domain: Body parts; direction and location
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuStFrom roots I-w instead of PuRuSt. Expresses verbal content or place of the verbal content.
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sag-ki = pu-tum MSL SS 1, 18: 30 (Sag) DCCLT. new
2Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts pu-tam tanpiḫtam isr[im?] ⸢i⸣šāt qablim Zimrī-Līm Epic i 32 SEAL “in front, the fire of battle has opened up(?) conflagration”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ⸢pu-ú-tu⸣ iqīlū inaʾʾilū īnīja Ludlul II 60 eBL “they befell the forehead (and) made my eyes brim (with tears)”. For a diff. interpretation of the second part see Hättinen 2022a (“my eyes ran a flood”).