summatu
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Meanings:
(female) dove
de:German: Deutsch Taube
fr:French: Français colombe (femelle)
Distribution: Ur IIIUr III: Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BCE), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), MA onward(s)MA onward(s): Middle Assyrian onwards (ca. 1500 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuRSat
Etymology: Derived ＜ summu I Cf. PSem. *sVm(V)m(-at) “kind of bird”, see SED 2, 257f. no. 196.
2 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts TUmušen Edubbaʾa 7, 100: 8.
MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [TU] ditto(mušen) = su-um-ma-tum : PI-at-tum Emar 6/4, 555: 71 DCCLT “[dove] = female dove : pigeon”. new
Discussion
Cf. also uncertain sum-ma-tíš “like a dove” (BAM 7, 37 ii 10 eBL), supposedly in the problematic drug name “whispers(?) like a dove” (sum-ma-tíš la-áš-at?). See also STT 1, 68: 25 ([... iṣ-ṣu/ṣú]-ri i-dam-mu-mu su-um-ma-[tiš? (x)]; cf. CAD D 60 damāmu 1b.