Akkadian Addenda · Signs
verdict
| Name | DI |
|---|---|
| Reads | [ṭi] |
| Means | veteran — DI gains [ṭi]: liṭīb, "may it be sweet" |
| Taught in | 13 · I am he |
| In Sumerian | the same sign's Sumerian page |
Where it comes from
The verdict-sign of 102 — di, the court’s word. Akkadian adds the pressed dental: ṭi, the emphatic ṭ that 103 taught your mouth to hold — and spends it on a wish: liṭīb, “may it be sweet, may he make well.”
How to remember it
A verdict can be pressed harder: say di with the tongue braced and it comes out ṭi — the sound of a judgment you can feel. The stele wishes its reader’s heart liṭīb, sweetened — a verdict in the reader’s favor.
In the wild
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Akkadian reading taught in 103’s chapter 13.