Word genu-

Meanings


Comment
Meaning Comment
knee Meaning range: 'knee; sexual part; race, clan': HEG, Weeks. See also 'penis' 04.492, 'tribe' 19.230, 'family' 02.820.
tribe, clan HEG. Also means 'knee', also used for 'sexual member' 04.492.
penis Neuter hapus, derived hapusanza as subject of an active verb. Synonyms lalu- (related to babytalk) 'erect penis' (Weitenberg 1984:41), pisnatar 'manhood' see 02.230, hassumar 'procreative capacity ('beget' 04.710), or the body part, genu- 'knee' (04.360) are secondary; see English 'limb, joint, member' Puh III 132-133. Apparent derivative hapusessar 'arrow' 20.250. Akkadian UZU/ISHARU = HTT lalu- 'penis' as the technical term in ritual and omen texts naming body parts: CHD. IE-Anatolian cognate: Lydian lálou 'boy's penis' HEG.