ūppi-

The two badly damaged attestations are found in NS ritual fragments.

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3sg. pret. ind. act.(?)	u-⸢up-pí-it⸣-t[a]	KBo 29.35, 10’	(CTH 770, NS)
unclear	u-up-p[í-…	KBo 29.44 r.col. 5’	(CTH 770, NS)

Generally, the sequence is interpreted as a verbal form, sometimes even considered to belong to ūppa-⁽ⁱ⁾ (hesitant CLL:242). Alternatively, one could think of a preverb *uppi ‘up, above’ not otherwise attested (but ūpnalla/i-), suffixed with the local particle =tta. Given the hopeless state of the fragment, either interpretation is speculative.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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As remarked under Forms, the context is highly fragmentary. Therefore, a semantic interpretation has to rely entirely on the word formation. A relationship, but not identity, with ūppa-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to bring’ is possible. Likewise, the word could be derived from a root upp- meaning ‘up, above’, either as a verb or a preverb (see under Forms). Since neither can be confirmed independently, the word is left untranslated here.

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Morphologically, a verb form ūppitta would be a 3sg. pret. act. of a stem ūppi-^­(ti). A preverb *uppi would follow the pattern of šarri ‘above, up, for’ and appi ‘back, again’. No decision is possible.

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