zuzzuwa-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1145
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
zuzzuwa-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found within the Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity with Palaic and Luwian incantations.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| unknown | zu-uz-˹zu-wa˺-x | KUB 32.18 iv 2’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
| zu-u[z-zu-wa-… | KUB 32.18 iv 1’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The last sign of what appears to be a reduplicated verb is badly damaged, i.e. zu-uz-˹zu-wa˺-x, so that one cannot recover the ending of the word in question.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word zuzzuwa- has been compared to the Glossenkeil word 
zuwa- c., which was often translated as ‘food’, and since the broken off direct object of the passage, where zuzzuwa- is attested appears to be a kind of bread, i.e.[ NINDAta-p]ár-waa-ši-in, semantics of consuming for Pal. zuzzuwa- has been suggested (Carruba 1970a:80) and maintained (Carruba 1972a:10f., HEG W-Z:792). However, the substantive zūwa- is here translated as ‘portion, share’, which may alter the semantics of the apparent Palaic denominative verb zuzzuwa- to ‘to apportion, share (?)’. In any case, the context is too fragmentary to allow us to draw any conclusion.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *zEu̯(H)-o-/-eh2-.