Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

SUMERIAN LOAN-WORDS10

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asakku a sickness 'azag-an = asakkuz CT XII 4 b 18 and KB VI'
261 ~ A synonym of iklita darkness, KB VI' 4 33. asakku akia
gloomy asakku, BA III 240 1. 3. In V R 46, 28 the star galu-bad
ie. the slayer, is translated by pagjar asakki, the body of asakkui.
Asakku then is a constellation having the form either of a man or
an animal. Ace. to KUGLP3R, Sternkunde 246 ff., the star of death
(p ) ascends in the month of Tammuz, and as Orion is in ascension
during the latter part of that month (the crab during the first part)
asakka is probably identified wvith Orion [Father KUJGLER writes me
that he accepts my identification w-Aith Orion and that the sign of
the Crab seems to him excluded]. The original Sum. probably is azag
(BR. 9887) bright, hot (fever?). Then mystified into a demon and
called " the destroyingbhand " a4-sig (BR. 6591), hence identified with
Orion.
azallu a plant, a-zal BR. 115107, HW 36; used 'in medecine
ZN XIX 176,7 9. The word azalla, without determinative for plant,
means flowing water-, Gud. Cyl. B XIV. 25; Urukagina Cone B
XII 44; Entemiena OBI 1 15-117 co]. II 2 (SAK 34). Written NI=
azal =-azalla CT XIX '17, 31; see. SAK 55a, BR. 5313. The plantis thus designated as one growing in fountains, a water plan-t.
a urrakku from, a-9tr BM. 11467 and var. a-sir BR.157;i
the former case qualified by kas, wine. In SU7rpu IX 44 in connection
with water.
ballukku an aromatic wood.4i~nLbal BR. 5167; TCI 8 obv. 1; SAI'
3530; idgr. BI-BI-EAN-DU ZA X 919 9, JENSEN, Kosmol. 162.
ban gabba, ba-an-gab-jrab ZiMMERN, Bit. 157'1; IV RI 22, 9
~"lbangabgablale -?, a vessel.
bibinakkui Sumerian loan-word for aribn, raven SAI 940== BR.
1660.
burruddnu religious and magic formula, malediction or curse,
from buir-rui-da, generally in kispti burrizdani, cult of burruda;
burrudane darnuqidi LSS IIF 93; [ki] bur-ra-da place where -the b.
was pronounced or performed; ASurpu IX 105, may have consisted
either in words or acts; for last ref. see Surpu p. 61.