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          bâtu - to stay overnight, spend the night; to delay
            (CAD B 169; AHw 124)
        
       
     
   
    
      biātu, biādu
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          batūltu - maiden, young girl
            (CAD B 173, AHw. 115)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var.  batūssu.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          batūlu - young man
            (CAD B 174, AHw. 116)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var.  badūlu.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baturru - (a tool)
            (CAD B 174, AHw. 116)
        
       
     
   
    
      From Sum. (giš)BA.TUR. A late (possibly, “learned”) borrowing.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baṭālu - to cease, to stop
            (CAD B 174, AHw. 116)
        
       
     
   
    
      Derived words: baṭiltu ‘interruption’ (CAD B 176, AHw. 116); baṭlu ‘ceased’ (CAD B 177, AHw. 116); biṭiltu (mng. uncert.) (CAD B 297, AHw. 134).
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baṭiˀu - (a vessel)
            (CAD B 178, AHw. 116)
        
       
     
   
    
      Var. baṭû. 
No etymology can be suggested.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baṭṭu - the cuneiform sign bad
            (SAD I)
        
       
     
   
    
      From Sum. BAD ‘to open’ (PSD B 33), also used as a sign name (Gong 2000, 104f.).
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baˀû - to bark
            (SAD 1 23)
        
       
     
   
    
      Interpreted as onomatopoeic in George; al-Rawi 1998:204, 206, but this is by no means certain.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          baˀû - to seek, desire
            (SAD 1 23)
        
       
     
   
    
      An Aramaic origin proposed by Parpola (apud Reynolds 2003, 125 n. to l. 19) cannot be excluded since the Aramaic root b-ˁ-y is widely attested in the basic stem (SL 169, DJPA 107, DJBA 224).
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
          Akkadian
        
      
      
        
          bâˀu - to walk along, go through (a street, a road, a square, a gate, etc.), to pass over (a region)
            (CAD B 178, AHw. 116)
        
       
     
   
    
      OA, Mari, EA, rare in SB.