The Akkadian scribe created Sumerian artificial words by way of association. The phonetic value was usually transferred from an Akkadian cognate to an artificial derivative arbitrarily. Let us chose a random word in Sumerian and see its metamorphosis during the process:
lipiš [INNARDS] (40x: ED IIIb, Old Babylonian) wr. lipiš; lipišx(|AB2.ŠA3|) "inner body; heart; anger, rage" Akk. libbu; uzzu; şurru
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7 distinct forms attested; click to view forms table.
~ LEX/Old Babylonian/unknown [[lipiš]] = = AB2.ŠA3 = li-ib-bu-[um] OB Diri "Oxford" 459; [[lipiš]] = = = şu2-ur-ru-[um] OB Diri "Oxford" 460; [[lipiš]] = = = uz-zu-u2-um OB Diri "Oxford" 461. LEX/Old Babylonian/unknown lipiš(AB2.ŠA3)-ĝu10 Ugumu 188; [x] lipiš-ĝu10Ugumu 189. unknown/ED IIIb/Lagash i7-bi en libiš-še3 nu-DU BiMes 03, 26 ii 4.
See: ĝešnimbar lipiš bur; maš lipiš; udu lipiš; uzu lipiš.
Akk. libbu "inner body; heart"; uzzu "anger, rage"; şurru "interior, heart".
See ETCSL: lipiš=inner body.
Akk. libbu "inner body; heart" > Sumerian lipiš [INNARDS]
Sumerian:
ĝešnimbar lipiš bur = datepalm innards tear [Sumerian giš-immaru from Akk. immeru ‘sheep’]
uzu lipiš = flesh innards [Sumerian uzu ‘flesh’ from Akkadian uzzu ‘anger’]
Also Sumerian god dšara2 from Akkadian šīru "flesh".
uzu ku3-a dšara2
from the association of Akkadian:
uzu [FLESH] (274x: ED IIIa, Old Akkadian, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian, unknown) wr. uzu; uzu(LAK350) "flesh; body; entrails; omen" Akk. šīru
We can also prove that Sumerian syntax was dictated by Akkadian morphology.
Sumerian formant -bi was actually formed at this very juncture:
i7-bi en li-bi-iš-še3 nu-DU
The formant -bi of the noun river in Sumerian id2; id3; id6; id7; id5 was formed on the fly by chopping the word li-bi-iš- > i-bi-
But the name river in Sumerian was created by another association of Akkdian words to Sumerian words:
lagab [EXCESS] (1x: Old Babylonian) wr. lagab "excess" Akk. atartu
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