Template:Lex/L


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la-ag: (cf., lag).

la-ga: (cf., lú-la-ga).

la-gal: (cf., lagar).

la-ha-ma: long-haired hero(s) ?; mythological sea monster ?.

la-la: joy; appeal, charms; abundance; vigor (reduplicated 'happiness').

lá-ìa[NI]: remainder of debt left over, difference, arrears ('to weigh; minus' + 'oil'; may be a connection to ia4, 'counter'; cf., lalla).

lagab na4za-gìn-na: a block of lapis lazuli ('block' + 'lapis lazuli' + genitive).

làl-har: mythological lake, pond ('honey; date syrup' + 'ring').

li-gi4-in: exercise tablet (loan from Akkadian liginnu).

li-um, le-um: plate.

iti dLi9-si4: calendar month 9 at Umma during Ur III.

lu-ga: (cf., lug).

lu-gú: to twist; be crooked, not straight ('numerous' + 'edge'; cf., ru-gú).

lu-hu-um: mud (luh,'to wash' + imi, 'clay, mud'; don't find Semitic parallels to Akk. luhummû, but Hebrew/Arabic LH/LHH means 'moist'; cf., lum, 'fertilizer, manure').

lu-lim: stag (Akkadian loanword ?; 'to graze, pasture' + 'thousand').

lu-úbsar: turnip, beet ('abundant' + 'container').

kušlu-úb: leather bag for holding food; lunch bag ('abundant' + 'container').

kušlu-úb-šir(-ra)...aka: to prepare (gold or silver) for the precious sack (by sifting) ('leather bag' + 'testicles' + locative case ending + 'to do').

lú-a-tu5(-a): a priest who bathes the statues of the deities and rulers - lustration priest ('man' + 'water' + 'to wash, bathe' + nominative).

lú-á-tuku: strong man, influential person ('man' + 'strength' + 'to have').

lú-(gtildeiš)bala: man of the spindle ('man' + 'spindle').

lú-bappir(2/3): brewer (cf., ningi; lunga) ('man' + 'beer bread').

lú-bar-ra: foreigner ('person' + 'outside' + genitive).

lú-búr-ru: interpreter (of omens/dreams) ('person' + 'to reveal, interpret (a dream)' + nominative with vowel harmony).

lú-dam-tuku: a married person ('person' + 'spouse' + 'to have').

lú-di-da: opposing party (in a legal case) ('man' + 'law suit' + 'with').

lú-du-du: vagabond ('man' + reduplicated 'to walk').

lú-é-nígtilde-ka: manager of the treasure-house ('man' + 'house' + 'treasure' + double genitive [a]k-a[k]).

lú-érim: enemy ('man' + 'evil, hostile').

lú-éše: prisoner ('man' + 'rope'; cf., é-éše, 'jail' and šagtildea, 'captive').

lú-ga-šum: assassin ('man' + 'I will' + 'to slaughter').

lú-gi-di(-da): piper ('man' + 'reed' + di-dé, 'to speak' + nominative).

lú-gi-gíd-da: flutist ('man' + 'reed' + 'long' + nominative).

lú-gu-la: despot ('man' + 'large').

lú-gub-ba: ecstatic ('man' + 'to stand' + nominative).

lú-gtildeiš-e3/11: doorkeeper, doorman ('man' + 'key').

lú-hun-gtildeá: hired worker ('man' + 'to hire' + nominative).

lú-im/tum9: 'wind man': unreliable person ('man' + 'wind').

lú-inim-ma: witness ('person' + 'word' + genitive).

lú-KA×LI-KA×LI: incantation priest (cf., tu6, mu7, zug4, uš7, and sig14).

lú-kal-(l): dear one ('person' + 'precious').

lú-kar-ra: refugee ('person' + 'to escape' + nominative).

lú-kaš4: courier ('man' + 'fast runner').

lú-ki-inim-ma: witness ('person' + 'place' + 'oath' + genitive).

lú-kúr-ra: stranger; enemy ('man' + 'mountains, foreign country' + genitive).

lú-kurun(-/ak/): brewer; innkeeper ('man' + 'alcoholic drink' (+ genitive)).

lú-la-ga: robber (cf., ma-la-(g)).

lú-lul(-la): unfaithful, treacherous man ('man' + 'lies' + genitive).

lú-má-gur8: boat captain ('man' + 'large boat').

lú...na-me...nu-: no man does X ('man' + prohibitive modal prefix + 'to be' + 'no, not'; cf., u4-na-me...nu-tuku).

lú-nam-tag-ga: sinner ('man' + 'guilt' + genitive).

lú-ní-zu(-/ak/): thief ('man' + 'one's own' + 'your' + genitive).

lú-ní-zuh: thief ('man' + 'one's own' + 'to steal, rob').

lú-nígtilde-nu-tuku: poor man, debtor ('man' + 'thing' + 'not' + 'to have').

lú-nígtilde-tuku: rich man, wealthy person ('man' + 'thing' + 'to have').

lú-ru-gú: recalcitrant, intractable individual(s) ('man' + ru-gú, 'to withstand, oppose').

lú-ru-gú-da: river ordeal, to decide an insoluble legal case, which involved swimming a certain distance and returning to shore without being pulled under by the current ('man' + 'to send' + 'river bank' + 'to be near'; cf., ru-gú).

lú-silim: perfect man ('man' + 'good, healthy').

lú-su-a: friend, acquaintance ('man' + su-a, 'cat').

lú-šár: numerous individuals, myriads ('men, people' + 'to be many').

LÚ.ŠE: (cf., níga).

lú še bad-rá: to thresh ('man' + 'grain' + 'to open, expose, peel, release, split' + nominative).

lú-šuku-ra-ke4-ne: persons with allotted portions ('allotted portions' + genitive + plural).

lú-tu-ra: a sick person ('person' + 'to be weak, sick' + nominative).

lú-u5-a: rider ('man' + 'to mount, ride' + nominative).

lú-u18[gtildcapIŠGAL]-(lu): mankind; human being ('humans' + 'huge' [ + 'numerous']).

lú-u18-um: name of a breed of small cattle (possible Semitic loanword).

lú-zàh: runaway, fugitive ('man' + 'to flee').

lú-zi(-d): righteous, good man ('man' + 'faithful, true').

lú-zu(-a): acquaintance ('person' + 'to know' + nominative).

lú-zuh: thief ('man' + 'to steal, rob').

lugal-šà-lá-sù: merciful king ('king' + 'merciful').

lul...dug4: to tell a lie ('lie' + 'to speak').

lul...si(-g): to keep silent ('lie' + 'to stay silent').

lum-ma: a fecund female ('to be fertile, productive' + nominative).