atraḫit-

Hapax in the Luwian passages of a ritual text (in LNS).

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nom.-acc. sg. n.

at-ra-ḫi-ša

KUB 35.133 iv 14’

(CTH 665, LNS)

The attestation follows CLL:40 (cf. also Laroche 1959a:34 and Starke 1990a:161) checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.

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Although no meaning was assigned in the early research (Laroche 1959a:34), there is an almost general agreement following Starke 1985a:249 n. 1, Starke 1990a:161 that the word means ‘nourishment’ (CLL:40; Tischler 2008a:32, Tischler 2016a:43; similarly Ünal 2016a:953 [“food”]; Starke rightly pointed out that Carruba’s translation as ‘Nachkomme’ [Carruba 1982b:4 with n. 6] based on Hieroglyphic Luwian á-tara/i- “‘Blut, Nachkommen, Samen’” is excluded by its meaning, which is now defined as ‘person, self’, see s.v.). Starke’s proposal was based on the circumstance that this word is followed by mašḫāḫid- ‘growth, prosperity’ and his derivation from a suppletive stem “atrai̯i-” of the Luwian verb adāriya- ‘to feed’. Since the context is not really clear and the co-occurrence of mašḫāḫid- ‘growth, prosperity’ is not decisive, the only evidence is etymological (and thus hypothetical). However, CLL:40 rightly pointed out that no such suppletive stem exists. Nevertheless, his alternative proposal, the same verb but with the deletion of the -ya- sequence, cannot be reconciled with the usual reflex of -iya-, which is -i- (his analogical case has the same irregularity aggravated by an unattested base verb), and does not explain the disappearance of the [ā]. Most recently, Sasseville 2018b:119 implicitly solved the problem, when he claimed that this verb “brings further evidence” for the existence of a Luwian noun *adar- (the base of adāriya- ‘to feed’), since he derived it from *h₁éd-ro-, which indeed should be reflected as *adra- in derivations, which is exactly the stem of this word.

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Last updated: 22 May 2020