saḫḫu I
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Meanings:
(water-)meadow
de:German: Deutsch Wässerwiese, Aue
fr:French: Français prairie humide, plaine alluviale
Distribution: MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts, MB-Bo.MB-Bo.: Middle Babylonian texts from Boğazköy/Hattuša (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem. (?)
Etymology: Uncertain
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢sa⸣-ḫu-um i[d...] sa-ḫu-um ⸢lā id⸣-[...] AML, 112: 18f. SEAL “the meadow will [...], the meadow shall not [...]”. As birth place of the snake. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [ana …] ⸢u⸣ ruppuš tālitti sugullāt alpī u ṣēnī saḫ-ḫu aptēma ušamkira mê ṭābūti JNES 78, 6: 29 RINAP “I opened up a wet meadow [in order to …] and to increase the offspring of herds of cattle and small livestock and I provided irrigation with good water”. new