āḫḫašā-(i)
‘to abandon, separate’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2349
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
āḫḫašā-(i)
‘to abandon, separate’1.1.1Transmission
The verb appears several times in NS fragment of rituals of the Kuwattalla tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| 2sg. impv. act. | a-aḫ-〈ḫa〉-ša-a(=) | KBo 29.14, 3’ | (CTH 763, NS) |
| part. nom. sg. c. | a-aḫ-ḫa-ša-[am-mi-iš] | KUB 35.11, 8’ | (CTH 760, NS) |
| [a-a]ḫ-ḫa-ša-a-mi-iš | KUB 35.12 iii 1’ | (CTH 762, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
If the interpretations of the semantics and the stem accepted below are correct, the expected phonological shape of the attestation in KBo 29.14, 3’ is /ahhasa-/, and a syncope of /a/ (thus Yakubovich 2012a:333) would be unexpected in such a short word. Therefore, an emendation restoring the second syllable at KBo 29.14, 3’ is preferred here.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word had remained untranslated in the handbooks (DLL:23, CLL:5, HHw:11), when Yakubovich 2012a:332f. submitted that āḫḫašā- represents a compound of the preverb āḫḫa ‘forth, away, entirely’ and the verb šā-(i) ‘to release’. The participle, attested in a context put together with the help of a duplicate text, functions as a predicate in a noun clause and governs several accusatives of respect (CLL:5): nīš=pa=aš āḫḫaša[mmiš siskur-iš en-aš dārušša] mišanza ... “Let the ritual patron not be abandoned (with respect to) figure, flesh ...!” (KUB 35.11, 8f. with dupl. KUB 35.12 iii 1f.; Starke 1985b:163f., Yakubovich 2012a:332). The other context (KBo 29.14, 3’) is too fragmentary to furnish evidence in any direction. However, the transparent word formation that yields a semantic analysis perfectly in concord with the context speaks very much in favor of Yakubovich 2012a’s proposal, which is therefore adopted here.
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1.1.5Stem
As pointed out under Meaning, the verb is a compound of the preverb āḫḫa ‘away’ and the verb šā-(i) ‘to release’ (following Yakubovich 2012a:332f.).
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