Cuneiform D Signs

DA

Image: Side view person with raised arm over legs with foot. The arm has no hinge so it is not a gate but instead represents human activity.

Definition: (noun) arm, nearness as in arm's length, (verb) to hold, to be near, to protect.

DI

Image: Side view of an interaction of 2 people in space

Definitions: (noun) judge, lawsuit,  judgment, decision, verdict, (verb) to judge, decide, to conduct oneself, to go, to escape - Similar to word "divine." This is possibly an epithet for the life manifestation goddess who judges whether to let through the fertility fluids to trigger the life manifestation accomplished by Yahu)

DU

Image: Top view of irrigation canal with emphasis on the control gates on either end

Definitions: (noun) control, (adj) controlling (verb) to control - deities are earth-controllers

Combinations

  1. (noun) DU.KI movers.control, earth-controller: SG 1.3,
  2. (adj) DU.KI movers.controlling, earth-controlling: SC 1.11

DU3

Image: storage pot with pointed base for loading onto boats

Definition: (noun) mold, form, life-form (verb) to mold, to form

Du3 (verb) to form - SS 1.7

DAG

Image: Network raining down fluids onto the earth

Definition: (noun) dwelling-place, livable land (verb) to dwell

DAM

Image: Female sign connected to the male sign with sky gate on the very bottom

Definition: spouse, spousal connection

(noun) spouse: SN 1.4

DAN

Image: Bound emotions (2 vertical lines with a cross bar) between a sky gate and the ground

Definition: to purify, to make clear

DAR

Image: capped lines (divine threads or channel) with a sky control gate splitting the channels in half

Definition: to split, to split off

  1. (verb) to split off:  SX 6.4

DIM

Image: Open square with zig-zag line added so "shaped wood"

Definition: to make

DIM4

Image: animal head

Definition: (noun) servant, slave, (verb) to serve, to beg - domestic animals are subservient and dependent on humans

DIN

Image: Filled diamond (space)

Definition: health, (verb) to cure, to be healthy

DIR

Image: Hollow piece of wood floating on water

Definition: (noun) excess, (verb) to be above, to go over, to exceed

DUB

Image: Mixture within a storeroom (UM) with its vestibule having an opening indicating some human is controlling access

Definition: (noun)  pest (verb) to pester, to be a pest- compare to UM

  1. (Noun) pest: SX 3.1, SX 4.1, SU 1.2
  2. (Verb) to pester: SX 1.5, 

DUG

Image: filled storage pot (alcoholic beverage in this context) with a pour spout

Definition: (noun) happiness, (verb) to make happy, to be happy

DUMU

Image: two storage pots on a stick (people, animals) connected together with a horizontal line

Definition: couple - Often an epithet for the life connective deities AN and INANNA together as "The Couple"

  1. (Noun) couple: SU 1.3, SX 5.2 
  2. (Participle) coupling: SX 7.2

DUN

Image: body with backbone with arms behind its back.

Definition: ward, pupil, subordinate

DUR

Image: Space holding a storage pot (egg) with closed square (male sign) above.

Definition: bond?