madādum

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Akkadian

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Root
m-d-d
1 term

Etymology

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Cognate with Arabic مَدَّ (madda) and Biblical Hebrew מָדַד (mɔḏáḏ).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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madādum (G, a-u, durative imaddad, perfect imtadad, preterite imdud, imperative mudud) (from Old Akkadian on)

  1.  to measure out, pay, measure, survey

Conjugation

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Conjugation
Infinitive madādum
Participle mādidum
Adjective maddum
Active Durative Perfect Preterite Imperative
1.sg amaddad amtadad amdud lumdud
2.sg m tamaddad tamtadad tamdud mudud
f tamaddadī tamtaddī tamdudī muddī
3.sg imaddad imtadad imdud limdud
1.pl nimaddad nimtadad nimdud i nimdud
2.pl tamaddadā tamtaddā tamdudā muddā
3.pl m imaddadū imtaddū imdudū limdudū
f imaddadā imtaddā imdudā limdudā
This table gives Old Babylonian inflection. For conjugation in other dialects, see Appendix:Akkadian dialectal conjugation.

Alternative forms

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Cuneiform spellings
Logograms Phonetic
  • 𒉘 (AGA₂, AG₂)

References

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  • “madādu”, 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) “madādu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag