ṣētu
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Variant: ṣītu
Meanings:
bright light; (sun) heat
de:German: Deutsch helles Licht; (Sonnen-)Hitze
fr:French: Français lumière vive ; chaleur (du soleil)
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: ṣʾjII/ʾ; III/j (mediae ʾaleph, tertiae infirmae) (?)pattern: PāSt (?)
Logogram: UD.DA
11. "(sun) light, bright light"
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) […] ṣilla UD.⸢DA⸣ [liktaššidūkunu] KAL 3, 66 r. 5 eBL “[(may the great gods of heaven and earth?) … ever chase you away] in the (night) shadow (and) in the (day) light”. reconstr. according to SAA 2, 6: 477.
12. In: ḫimiṭ ṣēti “burning through sun heat; sunstroke”
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kuṣṣa u zuʾta irtaši diʾu ēribu wāṣû UD.DA TAB.BA UD 7kám issallaʾma iballuṭ Sakikkû XVII 2 “(following symptoms including fever and sweat,) he develops chill and sweat – the coming (and) going diʾu -disease; inflammation due to sunlight; he will be infected for seven days but he will recover”. Corresponds to 4–7 in Heeßel 2000. new