warīta

The sole attestation of the verb occurs in a fragmentary MS copy of an incantation ritual.

[E.R.]

3sg. pret. ind. act.

wa-ri!-i-ta

KUB 35.109 iii 11

(CTH 765, MS)

CLuw. warīta is combined with reflexive -ti and used transitively with ‘cloth’ as its object. Afterwards something else is done with the cloth and repeated with other objects such as the ‘ḫulluri- of the threshing floor’, ‘woe’, ‘blood’, and ‘heat (?)’. Laroche (DLL:107) cautiously refrained from translating the word. However, Oettinger 1976-1977a:133 with n. 15 (followed in HEG U-Z:498 and Sasseville 2021a:327-329) proposed ‘to speak, (refl.) to ask for’, connecting the verb with Hitt. weriye/a-^(mi) ‘to call’. In contrast, Melchert (CLL:258) tentatively suggested ‘to appropriate (?)’ and a derivation from the same root as waralla/i- ‘one’s own’.Sasseville 2021a:327-329, following DLL:107, also adduces the instances of wariyati, although it seems preferble to assign it to the word family of war- ‘water’. Both solutions are possible, but neither one is substantiated by the context.

[E.R.]

Based on the isolated form warīta, no decision is possible between the stem classes of the -(a)i- type and the -i(ya)- type.

[E.R.]