pūtum

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *piʔat- (side, edge, front). Cognate with Arabic فِئَة (fiʔa, “class, division”) and Biblical Hebrew פֵּאָה (peʾɔ, “edge, corner”).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.tum/

Noun

pūtum f (construct state pūt or pūti, plural pâtum or pūtātu) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. forehead, front, brow
2. facade
3. (with ina) opposite, in front of

Usage notes

The plural form pūtātu is found in Middle Assyrian and Middle Babylonian texts.

Alternative forms

• pūtu (non-mimated)

Cuneiform spellings

Logograms	Phonetic
𒊕 (SAG) 𒊕𒆠 (SAG.KI) 𒍠 (ZAG)	𒁍𒌑𒌈 (pu-u₂-tum) 𒁍𒌋𒌈 (pu-u-tum) 𒁍𒌑𒁺 (pu-u₂-tum₂) 𒁍𒌈 (pu-tum) 𒁍𒁺 (pu-tum₂) 𒁍𒌑𒌅 (pu-u₂-tu) 𒁍𒌋𒌅 (pu-u-tu) 𒁍𒌋𒌓 (pu-u-tu₂)

References

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