ulmu
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Variant: ḫulmu+ (?)
Meanings:
(an axe, adze)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Domain: Weapons; tools
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Uncertain Perhaps borrowed from Hurrian, but the opposite direction of borrowing has also been suggested. See Richter 2012, 485 for previous literature.
2Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [ašš]um ḫu-ul-ma-ti ARM 26/2, 496: 4 ARCHIBAB “[Con]cerning the axes”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢l⸣abšū pat[r]ī namṣārī šu⸢k⸣urrī [id]⸢ūš⸣šunu išurrū ul-mu Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 22 SEAL “they were equipped with dag[g]ers, swords, and lances, (and) axes whirled at their [si]de(?)”. new