Babyloniaca, études de philologie assyro-babylonienne.

SUMERIAN-ASSYRtIAN VOCABULARIES
nY ST. LANUDON.
(Continued).
UZ (U-uz9.
According to Gud. Cyl. A 20, 14 UZ-ga, (also -28, 9), where the
group certainly refers to a demon, one might suppose a value in' g for
UZ, cf. Vug - labu, uimru, umdrnu etc., Babi. Ill 164. TH.-DANGIN,
ZA XVII, 125 u. 3 cites a text where UZ-ga is a profession.
5561 Cf. Gucl. St. EYV14.
55621 UZ-A, iqin UZ-A (T-?), BEP VP 23, 14.
A U`G; SU':sir.
Nug, sug as two general meanings: a) to water, errgu', to baptize
(ibM, MUali, to sprinkle salahu, zardqu, rahahu, nomninal verb of the root
V/~e~g (oan anu etc.) in classical texts, i'4 mu-da-s'ug-e, with oil he
sprinkled, Gud. Cyl. A 18, 28; cf. 20, 20. In. a violent sense, " deluge
with waters", (ubbt%, Meu ba-da-an-sug eburu utabbi SBP 260, 5 and
abrv. su K sug in K 69 Obv. 1 Meu su-sn == mutibbat eburn. b) crush,
sapn, active of IVsig be weak.
The root Vsig, be lofty, perhaps in 9aq I and elitu (sug), BR. 7601,
7606 -(both fromn a grammatical text). Also the root; V/sig-, be full, in
Sug = q'nn 2 The noun sug, brightness, to be expected from the widely
used I/ Siy, bright, only in an sn-nd da-d'm n/fr gctmt', SBH 97, 13
1. suga = rds'u (ms'rhi) to rejoice, no. 5589 is probably late and due to homophony of erJs'u and rt~u. Hence both ZIMMYERN and I are wrong in finding rdgu
in CT XV 197 4. 6. 8. 10, the reference is rather to watering plants throughout.
2. Perhaps also in CT XV 12 rev. 11, see no. 11033 in the Nachtrdge, sug
malW, v. Babt 11 279, 34.
3. Cf. du sP-ud-tim == sarna, SBE~ 86 rev. 1.,