Tuttavia, io l’ho preso sperando in uno devoto ai libri fino a riconoscere l’etetimo della parola. Invano! Chi volesse far ammenda a questa omissione, coniughi lui, via lettura circolare del zumero, i tag (pezzi) li + bir, che, semplificando, rendo: gioia, li, del contenitore, bir, o ‘esser felici dell’incontro con la stella cometa, li.bri.
li
to be happy; to rejoice; to sing [LI archaic frequency][1].
bir
n., destruction (cf., ellag2) (ba, ‘to divide’, + ir10, re7, ‘to stir, mix’) [BIR archaic frequency:].
v., to scatter, mix; to wretch; to murder.[2]
bir (2, 4)
n., mistiness (of the eyes) (ba, ‘inanimate conjugation’, + er2, ir2, ‘to weep’ and ur5, ‘to smell’, with possibly a hidden meaning of to dry for Vr or ara4 as also seen in dur2).
v., to sniff, wrinkle one’s noose; to dry up, shrivel up.
adj., flaccid, shriveled up (said of a penis). [3]
bir…aka
to sow broadcast (not in furrow with a plow); to dehusk (‘to scatter’ + ‘to do’).[4]
BIR-gun3
(cf., ellag2-gun3-gun3-nu). [5]
bir2-bir2
(cf., babbar). [6]
bir3 [ERIM/PIR2]; bir2 [UD]
yoke; team (of donkeys/animals) (ba, ‘inanimate conjugation prefix’, + ir10, ‘to accompany, lead; to bear; to go; to drive along or away’, the plural hamtu for to go’, cf., re7) [??; concatenation; ZATU-143 ERIM].[7]
bir3-inim-kes2-de6
contractually bound worker (‘yoke’ + ‘oath, agreement + ‘to bind’).[8]
gisbir3-mar
wagon yoke (‘yoke’ + ‘wagon’).[9]
bir5 [NAM]
locust, grasshopper; sparrow (cf., sim, sin2musen; bir3 for animals in plural numbers).[10]
bir6, 7
to rip to pieces; to shred; to break (cf., bir for similar semantics).[11]
bir 9 [NE]
to blaze, flame up (cf., bar6, 7 for similar semantics. [12]
[1]John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006 : 157.
[2] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[3] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[4] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[5] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[6]John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006 : 33.
[7] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[8] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 33.
[9]John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006 : 33.
[10][10] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 34.
[11] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 34.
[12] John Alan Halloran, Sumerian lexicon, Los Angeles, Logogram Publishing, 2006: 34.