ETCSL:ETCSLglossing

ETCSLglossing

Sign name: GIŠ%GIŠ (KIB)
Values: ḫul₃, lirum₃, šennur, ul₃

The debate between Bird and Fish (c.5.3.5), line c535.40

za-pa-aĝ₂-zu-ta	e₂-e	e₂-gal	im-suḫ₃-suḫ₃	gu₃	mu-e-ši-ib-šub-be₂
ZA-PA-Aĝ₂-ZU-TA	E₂-E	E₂-GAL	IM-SUḫ₃-SUḫ₃	GU₃	MU-E-šI-IB-šUB-BE₂
za-pa-aĝ₂	e₂	e₂-gal	suḫ₃	gu₃	šub
noise	house(hold)	palace	to blur	voice	to fall

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Paragraph t535.p4 (line(s) 29-40) Click line no. for paragraph-aligned layout of transliteration and translation.

"…… Bird, …… there is no insult ……! Croaking, …… noise in the marshes …… squawking! Forever gobbling away greedily, while your heart is dripping with evil! Standing on the plain, you can keep pecking away until they chase you off! The farmer's sons lay lines and nets for you in the furrows. The gardener sets up nets against you in gardens and orchards. He cannot rest his arm from firing his sling; he cannot sit down because of you. You cause damage in the vegetable plots; you are a nuisance. In the damp parts of fields, there are your unpleasing footprints. Bird, you are shameless: you fill the courtyard with your droppings. The courtyard sweeper-boy who cleans the house chases after you with ropes. By your noise the { house } { (1 ms. has instead:) palace } is disturbed; your din drives people away."

ePSD = The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary