qallalu
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Meanings:
very small, slight, delicate
de:German: Deutsch sehr klein, gering, fein
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjectiveroot: qllII/gem (mediae geminatae)pattern: PaRRaS
Logogram:
TUR
meš
Etymology: Derived ＜ qalālu
11. Predicative use
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) sinništu šēpāša !(text: GÌR-šú) TUR[(meš ?) : ṣeḫ]r[ā ?* :] qal-la-la CunMon. 49/2, 323: 5′ “(if) a woman’s feet(!) [are] small [(means)] they are very delicate”. Commentary Sakikkû XXXVI 99. new
12. Attributive use
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) bīt rab tupšarri bītu qa-lál SAA 16, 89: 9 SAAo “the house of the chief scribe is a tiny house (not even a donkey would enter there)”.