Variant: atāru, AssAss: Assyrian dialect (all periods) utāru, matāru
Meanings:
to be(come) outsize, surplus
de:German: Deutsch überdimensioniert, überzählig sein/werden
fr:French: Français être/devenir surdimensionné, excédentaire
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: wtrI/w (primae wāw) – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stative: PaRaSStative in PaRaS (deviates from default PaRiS) (OA watur; Ass. utar)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix), DtnDtn-stem (D with tan-infix, iterative), DttDtt-stem (D with tt-infix), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem), ŠtŠt-stem (Š with t-infix)
Logogram: DIRI
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Aram. and Syr. jtr “to remain; to be more”; Hebr. jtr “straff spannen, strecken; überschüssig, überragend sein”, see Gesenius 1987, 352; similar also Arab. wtr, see Wehr 1985, 1372.
11 attestation1. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
milkī liq⸢īma⸣ damāqa ut-⸢ter⸣
Counsels of Wisdom: 5 ↗eBL “take my advice and exceed in being virtuous!”
22 attestations2. ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
m[īl]am kabtam ana mātim ⸢ú⸣-ša-te-ra-＜＜PA＞＞-am
BagM 34, 140 ii 5 “(Adad) made a massive f[lo]od enormous for the land”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
šu-tur ana dibbimma mašil ana li[lli
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Counsels of Wisdom: 7 ↗eBL “he excels in gossip but he equals a fo[ol(?)]”. Note the different translation in Földi 2022 (“He talks too much ...”). The present translation has been chosen due to the particular notion of dibbu as “gossip, rumor.” An alternatively viable translation of šūtur ana dibbi would be “he exaggerates concerning a matter/legal claim.”