ETCSLglossingSignSign name: BU
Values: bu, bur12, dur7, gid2, kim3, pu, sir2, su13, sud4, tur8
The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.26
ni<sub>2</sub>i<sub>3</sub>-buluj<sub>5</sub>ga-ba-almu-ni-in-du<sub>3</sub>
ni2buluj3ga-ba-aldu3
selfto flourishfightto erect
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Paragraph t535.p3 (line(s) 22-28) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.
Then Fish laid its eggs in the lagoons; Bird built its nest in a gap in the reedbeds. But Bird frightened the Fish of the lagoons in its ……. Fish took up a stand and cried out. Grandiosely it initiated hostilities. It roused the street by quarrelling in an overbearing manner. Fish addressed Bird murderously:
ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
Sumerian scribe

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