Cuneiform M Signs
MA
Image: Side view of a stick man standing on raft with a rudder and tiller on left side
Definition: boat, raft
MA2
Image: Room with opening and a door handle. Emphasis is on the act of gathering or trapping animals in a pen
Definition: (verb) to gather
- (verb) to gather: SG 1.11
ME
Image: Battle standard
Definition: (noun) powers, (verb) to empower. Possessive plural noun suffix (our) indicating item is owned. When applied to a deity it indicates the deity's power is meant.
MI
Image: clothed deity
Definition: clothing power - as in the power of position
MU
Image: Stick stylus (leaves still attached) pressing into a clay tablet
Definition: (noun) words (verb) to listen, to heed (prep) because - words were an agent of motion change
(noun) words SS 1.7, SX 6.1
Compounds
- (verb) A.MU - move towards.heeding, take heed: SG 1.12
MAḪ
Image: Seated man
Definition: to sit?, to judge? (old guess is " to make large")
MAR
Image: Something carrying two things
Definition: (noun) transport - usually used with a modifier to indicate boat or cart. By itself it can be an epithet for worm
- (Verb) to transport: SX 7.1
Compounds
- MAR.KI - earth-transport, to cart away: SU 1.3
MAŠ
Image: Stick man, 1/2 of line
Definition: fraction, part-of - as in interest on a loan, a fractional cost like rent, fractional yield of a field
MAŠḪI (compound word)
Image: 1/2 line (MAŠ) over space (ḪI)
Definition: fractional-space, unknown-space, sacrificial animal, (verb) to inspect a place, to examine an event
MES, MEŠ
Image: viral young man wearing a short toga
Definition: young man
MIR
Image: Falling water (rain) over farm land indicated by 2 furrows
Definition: (noun) storm, anger, (verb) to blow, to storm, to get angry
MUL
Image: 3 stars
Definition: (noun) glowing-one, (verb) to shine, to glow, glowing-things (like constellations, planets, meteors) - might be a representation of the motion source goddess.
MUŠ
Image: top view of animal head attached to a backbone over a sky gate
Definition: (noun) snake as a symbol of reincarnation (adj) bitter