pīš-

This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

2sg. impv. act.	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 14’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 14’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 15’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 16’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 17’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 18’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 19’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 19’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-i-ša	KUB 35.165 rev. 24’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	˹pí-i˺[-ša]	KUB 35.165 rev. 13’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	pí-š[a(-) ]	KBo 64.179, 7’	(CTH 751, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. The attestation KBo 64.179, 7’ is not ascertained, but very likely. We separate the word sequence ḫa-an-da-ia-pí-ša into ḫa-an-da=ia and pí-ša ‘Pass along the warm (meat)!’.

[D.S.]

In the context where the verb repeatedly appears, one god after the other is being asked to pass along the meat until the tenth deity of the pantheon is reached. The Palaic verb pīš- ‘to give’ has been rightly associated with Hitt. pāi-/-i(ya)-^(ḫi) ‘to give’ and interpreted as an iterative form in -š-⁽ⁱ⁾ conjugated in the 2^nd person imperative singular by Kammenhuber 1959a:34 (taken over by Carruba 1970a:68).

[D.S.]

For the derivational base see PAnat. *pói̯h₁-/-ih₁-´.