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Meanings:
day; weather; storm, storm-demon
de:German: Deutsch Tag; Wetter; Sturm, Sturmdämon
fr:French: Français jour ; météo ; tempête, démon de la tempête
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivenumber: pl. masc. and fem.Plural masculine and femininepattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem.
Logogram: UD
Etymology: Cf. PS *jawm “day”, see Fronzaroli 1965, 139, 141; Kogan 2011, 193, 196 (cf. also SEDo).
11. As day-time (in contrast to night)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) UD-mu šutānuḫu mūšu gerrānu arḫu qitajjulu idirtu šattu Ludlul I 105 eBL “crestfallen at day, wailing at night, anxious silence for a month, misery for a year”.

12. Particular days

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) kī ša ... ibṭilu ud-mu ili išēṭu eššēšu Ludlul II 16 eBL “(I became) like one who had stopped (practicing) the day(s) of a god (and) who had missed the festival day(s)”.

13. In expressions referring to remote times

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ša ul-tú-me pani epšuma CUSAS 17, 78: 13 “which had existed since days of yore”. Sandhi for ultu ūmē, see also “IM Baghdad” (see AfO 50, 106, emended by Kessler to ul-<tú> u₄-me) and RINAP 2, 494: 13.

24. Referring to age

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) pāliḫ anun⸢na⸣kī urrak UD-mu Counsels of Wisdom: A+91 eBL “who revers the Anunna-gods will prolong (his) days”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma UDmeš-šú arkūma Sakikkû XVI 71–85 “if he is old (lit.: his days are long)”. Corresponds to 87′–101′ in Heeßel 2000. new

25. In the meaning "storm; (extreme) weather"

MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts UD-mu ekdu tīb lā maḫār bibil libbi Ištar BagM 25, 464: 12 “the wild storm, the irresistable attack, the favorite of Ištar”. see also Talon 2005, 126: 11.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ša kīma u₄-mu (var.: u₄-mi; u₄-me) meḫê nāmû uggassu u kīma (var.: kī) mānit(i) šērēti zâqšu ṭābu Ludlul I 5 eBL “whose rage is as devastating as stormy weather but whose breathing (lit.: blowing) is as pleasant as a gentle morning breeze”.

16. Further Attestations

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) īṭi UD-mu (∥ UD-me) ša gimir kimtija Ludlul II 119 eBL “the day darkened for my entire family”.

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