ārrazza-

The stem ārrazza- is found in ritual texts from both the Kuwattalla and the Tauriša tradition (from MS and NS fragments).

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nom. sg. c.	a-ar-ra-az-za-aš!	KUB 35.43 ii 10	(CTH 761, NS)
acc. sg. c.	a-ar-ra-az-⸢za⸣-an	KUB 35.109 iii 8	(CTH 765, MS)
unknown	a-ar-r[a-az-za(-)	KUB 35.109 ii 3’	(CTH 765, MS)
	a-ar-r[a-az-za(-)	KUB 35.109 iii 2	(CTH 765, MS)

Mouton, Puértolas Rubio & Yakubovich (pers. comm.) restore [a-ar-r]a-az-za-an also at KBo 29.14, 5’.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – An emendation a-ar-ra-az-za-〈aš〉 at KUB 35.43 ii 10 is suggested by Starke 1985b:144, which is met with skepticism in Sasseville 2014-2015a:108 n. 10. The latter scholar points out that formally a dat./loc. sg. in -a cannot be excluded for ārrazza, but syntactically the word order indirect object/local adjunct + subject + direct object would be exceptional. Since a single vertical is found after -za instead of the expected horizontal for -aš, it is read as -aš^! here.

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The lexeme has remained untranslated in the handbooks until recently (DLL:30, CLL:26, HHw:s.v., HW²:249). In the only informative context, ārrazza- describes a sheep that is being prepared to function as a scapegoat: ⁽¹⁰⁾za-aš pa-ra-ad-du a-ar-ra-az-za-aš^! ha-a-ú-i-iš ⁽¹¹⁾[              ]x-an-ta-an ú-i-ta-at-ta-an ‘let this ārrazza- sheep carry away the [...]-antan witattan’ (KUB 35.43 ii 10). Later, in line 19, the sheep is referred to as UDU BABBAR ‘white sheep’.

Carruba 1977a:310 proposed ‘washed, cleaned’ based on a putative relationship with ārr-^(ḫi) ‘to wash’, but this makes little sense in a context where the sheep has just been burdened with the ritual client’s impurity, and the interpretation was therefore not accepted. More recently, Yakubovich 2013b considered a connection with CLuw. ārrai(ya)- ‘long’, but was hesitant to apply it because it does not permit a meaningful interpretation of the context. Next, Oettinger 2016a:233f. suggested ‘male’ assuming that scape animals are males, which, however, is not necessarily the case, see for female human substitutes H. M. Kümmel 1967a:112f. and for female sacrificial animals H. M. Kümmel 1967a:122. A new attempt came from Yakubovich 2017d, who thought of ‘hindmost (?)’, probably because of arra- ‘buttocks’, but later, it was replaced by Yakubovich (pers. comm.) himself with ‘white (?)’. The last interpretation has the advantage of being contextually supported, since the sheep in question is explicitly said to be white in the description in line 19. Therefore, it is accepted here with due caution.

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The stem ends in the non-mutation suffix -azza-, the function of which is under discussion (see Sasseville 2014-2015a substantives with an individualized meaning, and Yakubovich 2013b at least originally adjectives with a superlative function). No stance is taken here, but it should be noted that the context cited above would favor an adjectival interpretation.

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