wārmāunta

All attestations are found in NS ritual fragments of the Kuwattalla tradition.

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3pl. pret. ind. act.	wa-a-⸢ar-ma-a-ú⸣-u[n-ta]	KUB 35.14 i 20’’	(CTH 760, NS)
	wa-a[r-ma-a-ú-un-ta]	KUB 35.14 iv 1’	(CTH 760, NS)
	wa-a[r-ma-a-ú-un-ta]	KUB 35.15 iii! 1	(CTH 761, NS)
	wa-ar-m[a-a-ú-un-ta]	KBo 9.141 iv 14’	(CTH 761, MS)

Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suspects that the verbs in -unta represent 1pl. pret. act. forms. – The participle warmama/i-, which has been assigned to this verb (Cammarosano 2018a:290, Melchert (pers. comm.), though not by Sasseville 2021a:198), is treated separately on semantic grounds (see under Lemma).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The restoration at KUB 35.14 iv 1’ and KBo 9.141 iv 14’ builds on an implicit remark in CLL:259. It is based on the combination with ārin immediately preceding the present form and nakkuššaunta in the following line. –Mouton, Puértolas Rubio & Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suggests restoring [wa-ar-ma]-a-un-ta at KBo 9.143 iii^! 9, although traces of the broken sign ]x-a-un-ta are more compatible with the ones of a sign -n]a-, which leads rather to the restoration of a different verb (Sasseville pers. comm.), see īkkunāwunta.

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An informed semantic interpretation was not possible, yet (DLL:107, CLL:259, Sasseville 2021a:198). However, most recently Melchert and Yakubovich (pers. comm.) agreed on translating the verb as ‘to conjure’. It is based on the plausibly restored context of KBo 9.141 iv 14’-17’ (cf. also the dupl. KUB 35.15 iii^! 1-4)  ^(14’)a-a-ri-in wa-ar-m[a-a-ú-un-ta ta-pa-a-ru-wa] ^(15’)ta-ta-ri-ia-am-m[a ḫi-i-ru-ú-ta pu-u-wa-ti-la] ^(16’)na-a-nu-un-tar-ri-ia-l[a wa-la-an-ti-ia ḫu-it-wa-li-ia] ^(17’)na-a-nu-um-pa na-ak-ku-u[š-ša-a-ú-un-ta]. They translate: ‘For some time we kept con[juring t.], curse, [perjuries, past and] present, [of the dead and the living], and now [we performed] the scapegoat rite.’ According to this translation, ārin is an accusative of duration, while tapāruwa, tatariyamma etc. represent the direct objects.

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The morphematic segmentation of the verbal forms in -aunta is unclear (see already the inconclusive discussion in Otten 1953a:72f.). While Weitenberg 1984a:295 interpreted -au- as a nominal suffix, on which verbs in -au- are based, Starke 1990a:538 (as van Brock 1962a:195f. before him) posited denominative stems in -wa-^(ti). More recently, Sasseville 2021a:198 tried to establish a verb class in /-(a)u-/. However, the potential linguistic material is sparse and contradictory.

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