ramānu

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Variant: ramanu, ramnu, MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE)/LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) ramannu, AssAss: Assyrian dialect (all periods) rāmanu
Meanings:
self
de:German: Deutsch selbst
fr:French: Français soi-même
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), OA onward(s)OA onward(s): Old Assyrian onwards (ca. 1900 BCE onwards), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRāSinfinitive, PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem., PaRaSadjective, PaRaSS (?)
Logogram: NÍ
Etymology: Inherited The etymolgy is uncertain; cf. Kogan 2015, 94.
1 Lexical

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) su : zuʾru : su : ra-ma-nu CunMon. 49/2, 117: 3. Commentary Sakikkû III 1. new

5Further Attestations

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina ra-ma-na-te-ni Prag, 533 r. 8 “from our own (resources)”. Similar 88/k 963: 29–31; ra-ma-na-tem 91/k 138: 38f. “ourselves” (see CAD R, 122a s.v. ramanu c 2’ b’). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) umma kī ana panīni etlâ ana ṣālta ana libbišu nillakma u māt GN ana ša ram-ni-ni nutarru RIMB 2, 295 i 23 “(thus:) if he has come up against us, we will go to fight against him and we will take possession of the land of GN”. See also RIMB 2, 391 i 15. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) nanzāzū taslīt(u) uštanaddanū elīja paḫrūma ra-man-šú-nu (∥ ra-man-šu-nu) ušaḫḫazū nullâti Ludlul I 58 eBL “the courtiers began to spread (between each other) humiliating talk(?) about me—(when) they are gathered, they incite themselves (for) treacherous chatter”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢bakkû⸣ʾa ibakkû ⸢ra⸣-ma-ni (‖ ra-ma-nu ; ⸢ra⸣-man) ul īši Ludlul II 83 eBL “my wa[il]ers began to cry, I was not in control of (lit.: had not) myself”. Similar to the restorations in Oshima 2014, 90f. ([ba-ku]-⸢ú⸣-a “my [(professional) wailer]s”), not adopted in Hätinen 2022. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) illurtu šīrīja nadâ idāja maškan ra-ma-ni-ia (‖ ram-ni-ja) muqqutā šēpāja Ludlul II 98 eBL “my arms were fastened in the fetters of my flesh, my feet have collapsed into the shackle of myself”. new

Discussion

Ass. evidence suggests a form rāmanu or ramanu, since the second syllable is subject to vowel assimilation (GOA 674 fn. 11f.; de Ridder 2018 §381). The late by-form ramnu also points towards a short vowel. On the other hand, occasional plene-spellings suggest a long (or stressed?) vowel (ramānu).

The previous assumption that SU is used as a logogram in KAR 426: 11 is now obsolete, since the passage is now read as SU.[GU₇] (see Heeßel 2012, 275 no. 88: 11′).

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