epēšum
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Akkadian
| Root |
|---|
| '-p-š |
| 1 term |
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ḥapaś- (to search, gather). Cognate with Arabic حَفَشَ (ḥafaša, “to gather”) and Biblical Hebrew חָפַשׂ (ḥɔp̄áś, “to search”).
Pronunciation
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /eˈpeː.ʃum/
Verb
epēšum (G, a-u, durative ippeš, perfect ītepeš, preterite īpuš, imperative epuš) (from Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian on)
- (intransitive) to act, behave, proceed, be(come) active
- (transitive) to do, make, build, manufacture
- (transitive) to do, carry out, excercise (a function), used mainly in idiomatic phrases.
Usage notes
The class u inflection appears in later Babylonian texts.
Conjugation
| Conjugation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | epēšum | |||||
| Participle | ēpišum | |||||
| Adjective | epšum | |||||
| Active | Durative | Perfect | Preterite | Imperative | ||
| 1.sg | eppeš | ētepeš | ēpuš | lūpuš | ||
| 2.sg | m | teppeš | tētepeš | tēpuš | epuš | |
| f | teppešī | tētepšī | tēpušī | epšī | ||
| 3.sg | ippeš | ītepeš | īpuš | līpuš | ||
| 1.pl | nippeš | nītepeš | nīpuš | i nīpuš | ||
| 2.pl | teppešā | tētepšā | tēpušā | epšā | ||
| 3.pl | m | ippešū | ītepšū | īpušū | līpušū | |
| f | ippešā | ītepšā | īpušā | līpušā | ||
| This table gives Old Babylonian inflection. For conjugation in other dialects, see Appendix:Akkadian dialectal conjugation. | ||||||
Alternative forms
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Derived terms
References
- “epēšu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “epēšu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Categories:
- Akkadian terms belonging to the root '-p-š
- Akkadian terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Akkadian terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Akkadian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Akkadian lemmas
- Akkadian verbs
- Akkadian G-stem verbs
- Akkadian class a-u verbs
- Akkadian terms attested from Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian on
- Akkadian intransitive verbs
- Akkadian transitive verbs