wālittu
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Variant: ālittu
Meanings:
one who gives birth, mother
de:German: Deutsch Gebärende, Mutter
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: fem.Feminineroot: wldI/w (primae wāw)pattern: PāRiStG-stem participle
Etymology: Derived ＜ wālidu
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts bābam ša wa-li-it-tim sanda[k] pārikat AML, 164: 6 SEAL “(Lamaštu) is continously blocking the gate of the woman giving birth”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ikkarriṭma zamar(ma) itâr a-lit-tuš (∥ a-lit-tuš-šú) Ludlul I 18 eBL “(but) once he is merciful, he will quickly become (like) his mother”. perhaps to be understood as loc.-adv. (see Groneberg 1978, 23), as târu in the mng. “to turn into” normally requires a preposition ana (cf. CAD T 259f. târu 4). new