warlaḫi-

This lexeme is found in an incantation of the festival for the Palaic pantheon.

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nom. pl.	wa-ar-la-ḫi-iš	KUB 35.165 rev. 7’	(CTH 751, OS or MS)
	w[a-ar-l]a-ḫi-eš	KBo 19.153 + KBo 62.43 iv 3’/2’	(CTH 751, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

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The word warlaḫiš refers to a sacrificial animal alongside bovines and dogs. In a comparative analysis with KUB 35.148 + KUB 7.57 iii 40-42, Sasseville 2019a:24f. shows that warlaḫiš equates to either Hitt. UDU-un ‘sheep’ or ŠAḪ ‘pig’, i.e. one of the two remaining animals of the ritual of Zuwi. Since the Palaic ritual feast mention elsewhere the displaying of a ram, i.e. šamēri-, it is therefore likely that Palaic warlaḫi- means ‘sheep’. Moreover, there is not yet any indication that pigs were used in the ritual feast for the Palaic pantheon. On etymological grounds, Sasseville & Yakubovich 2018a:51 argue that it might even have the meaning ‘lamb’, although they do not exclude that it may have become the generic word for ‘sheep’.

                a-an-ta wa-ar-la-ḫi-iš ku-wa-li-ma ták-ku-wa-an-te-eš a-ša-an-du (KUB 35.165 rev. 7’)

                ‘The sheep must be shown/presented in the stockyard.’

No meaning is offered in Carruba 1970a:78.

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For the stem formation in -aḫ-i- c., see Watkins 1975a:365, Sasseville & Yakubovich 2018a:51 and Sasseville 2021a:213f.

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