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Akkadian
pilludû - ritual
(CAD P 377, AHw. 853)
Or billudû. From Sum. bel(l)uda “rite, custom”. Sum. bel(l)uda “rite, custom” is probably an early loanword from Akk. bēlūtu ‘rule, dominion’ (Powell 1972:210, fn. 128).