mārda(/i)-
‘(a tool)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, gender unclear
- ID
- 1420
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
mārda(/i)-
‘(a tool)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in the Great Ritual of Kuwattalla and Šilalluḫi.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | ˹ma-a˺-ar-da-a-ti | KUB 35.21 rev. 20’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| ma-a-a[r-da-a-ti] | KUB 32.11+ obv. 6 | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| [ma-a-ar-da-a-t]i | KUB 35.28 i 1’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). For a restoration of the context of KUB 35.28 (joined to KBo 22.143), see Sasseville 2020b:114f. and cf. Starke 1985b:96.
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1.1.4Meaning
The noun mārdāti is the instrument with which the taluppi, representing something evil, is struck. Therefore, the word can be interpreted as a tool for hitting (Sasseville 2020b:115, outdated Otten 1953a:80).
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1.1.5Stem
With only the instrumental form attested, it is not possible to know to which nominal stem class the lexeme belongs.
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1.1.6Origin
No etymology possible.
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