*u̯orh₁-éh₂-

1. warraḫit-

Reconstructed from a personal name attested twice in a tessera iudicis of unknown provenance dated to the end of the 3rd / beginning of the 2nd c. by Brixhe 1969a:144.

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The attestations follow Pérez Orozco 2007a:137 checked against the photograph in Brixhe 1969a:Pl.I.3.

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On the reading of the sixth sign (N6) of this name as ‹w› and not ‹j› as previously assumed proposed by Pérez Orozco 2003a:15f. (contra Schürr 2016b:150f.) see the discussion in Simon 2020e:201 n. 3.

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Already Nollé 2001a:640 recognized that we are dealing with a compound name, but could not offer any suggestion, as its reading was unclear at that time (Eichner’s cautious attempt for reconstructing an earlier form (Eichner 1988b:47 n. 9) was based on a now outdated reading and did not result in any meaningful form). Pérez Orozco 2007a:129 suggested a connection with the well attested Anatolian onomastic element *warwa- of unknown meaning (which would explain, in his views, the second /o/ from *-wa-). A formally more fitting solution is provided by Melchert 2013c:38, who connected it to warra/i- ‘help, aid’ (see s.v.), a frequent second member of Luwian compound names. Although Schürr 2016b:151 rejected Melchert’s proposal, but this view is based on Schürr’s false interpretation of the sign N6 (see under Graphic features).

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Only found in the expression wārra ḫalzāi-/-i(ya)-^(ḫi); see EDHIL:962, HEG W-Z:312.