samû II

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Meanings:
to be undecided, vacillate
de:German: Deutsch unentschlossen sein, schwanken
fr:French: Français être indécis, hésiter
Distribution: MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: smwIII/w (tertiae infirmae) – u/uu/u class (Present u, Preterite u)stem: DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Inherited
21. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [...]-ru as-ta-mu Lambert 1989 i 3 “I became anxious (?)”. Uncertain and in broken context. The passage had previously been taken as only attestation for a verb tamû III in AHw 1318 (already rejected in CAD T 168).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma birīt qaqqadišu sa-mi Sakikkû III 31 “if he is troubled (concerning the hair of?) the top part of his head”. Cf. the note in Schmidtchen 2021, 269. new

12. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) [ni]šū ina lā dīni su-um-mu-ma idarrisū a⸢ḫāmeš⸣ Frazer/Adalı 2021, 233 i 10 “without legal decision(-making), [the pe]ople were forced into indecision and repulse(d) each other”. Cf. the note on the meaning in Frazer/Adalı 2021, 240 preferring the transl. “to lose direction.” new

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