eDiAna

zarpa(i)-(di)

‘to brush, scrape (?)’

Language
Cuneiform Luwian
Grammar
verb
ID
1178

1. Individual Anatolian Languages

1.1 Cuneiform Luwian

zarpa(i)-(di)

‘to brush, scrape (?)’

1.1.1Transmission

The sole attestation of this verb is found in a ritual fragment from the Tauriša tradition (MS).

[E.R.]

1.1.2Forms

3pl. pret. ind. act. ˹za-ar˺-pa-a-in-ta KUB 35.107 iii 23’ (CTH 764, MS)

1.1.3Graphic Features

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

[E.R.]

1.1.4Meaning

On the reasons for a very tentative assignment of the meaning ‘to brush, scrape’, see under zarp(i)-.

[E.R.]

1.1.5Stem

The verb might belong to the small class of denominative stems in -a(i)-(di). As noticed already in DLL:114 and CLL:280, it is based on a collective noun zarpā, which may be attested in KUB 25.37 ii 29’ (see under zarp(i)-).

[E.R.]

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