Cuneiform Š Signs

ŠA

Image:  Water falling onto a storage pot having either a control valve or an earth plane at the bottom

Definition: to empty

  1. (verb) to empty: SX 2.2

Compounds

  1. ŠE.ŠA, LI (verb)  graneries.empty = drought: SG 1.8

ŠE

Image: Stalk of grain

Definition 1: grain, granery

Definition 2: a small length measure, barleycorn = 1/6 finger = 1/30 cubit = 1.67 centimeter in Presarg.-OB period; as a surface area measure = 432 square linear barleycorns = 12 square fingers; as a volume measure = 1/180 gín = 1/3 gín-tur = 1 2/3 sìla = 360 cubic fingers = 1/10800 sar = approx. 1.667 liters; 1/180 of a gín or shekel of silver = ca. 0.0463 grams 

Compounds

  1. ŠE.ŠA, LI (verb)  graneries.empty = drought: SG 1.8

ŠE3, ZI, ZID

Image: section of land with growing grain

Definition: (noun) flour

ŠI

Image:  

Definition: (unknown)

ŠU

Image: side view of water behind a gate

Definitions: (noun) control (verb) to control

  1. (Noun) control: SX 5.1
  2. (Verb) to control: SN 1.2

ŠAM

Image: Side view of a life channel (wheat filled, not enclosed on the bottom) controlled by a pair of something using a sky gate.

Definition: (noun) economic exchange, buy/sell, (verb) to barter?

ŠAG4

Image:  Space containing a body part

Definition: innards, liver, mood, emotions, entrails, emotion/motion powers

ŠAKAN

Image: Seated human having a mouth and two arms crossed in front of its body

Definition: record keeper, accountant, paymaster

ŠANGA

Image: blocked irrigation canal

Definition: ?

ŠEŠ

Image: Grounded female with breast

Definition: (noun) relative, family member

Compounds

  1. (noun) ŠEŠ.KI - Earth-relative. Used to describe relationship to deities: SU 1.1

ŠIBUR

Image: Man with hands behind back

Definition: slave, deprived person

ŠUM

Image: Cattle head having a cap showing an opening or spout

Definition: to butcher

ŠUR

Image: Storage pot filled with fluid having a vertical line indicating it is connected to something. Notice the vertical line touches the inner fluid line.

Definition: to refine fluid, to rain, to extract oil