ḫallīna-⁽ⁱ⁾

The verb occurs only in ritual fragments of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

[E.R.]

3sg. pres. act.	ḫal-li-i-na-i	KBo 29.20, 4’	(CTH 762, NS)
	ḫal-li-i-n[a-i]	KBo 29.20, 1’	(CTH 762, NS)
	ḫal-li-na-i	KBo 29.20, 5’	(CTH 762, NS)
	[ḫal]-li-i-na-i	KUB 35.43 iii 14’	(CTH 761, NS)
	ḫal-l[i-i-n]a-i	KUB 35.24, 11’	(CTH 761, MS)
	ḫal-li-n[a-i]	KBo 29.20, 2’	(CTH 762, NS)
	ḫal-[li-na-i]	KBo 29.22, 3’	(CTH 760, NS)
	⸢ḫal-li⸣-na-i	KUB 35.20 obv. 3’	(CTH 761, MS)
	[ḫal-l]i-na-i	KUB 35.112, 8’	(CTH 761, NS)
	ḫal-li-na-i	KUB 35.112, 10’	(CTH 761, NS)
	[ḫal-li-n]a-i	KUB 35.112, 13’	(CTH 761, NS)
	ḫal-li-[na-i]	KUB 35.29 ii 2’	(CTH 761, NS)
	ḫal-li-na-⸢i⸣	KBo 52.231 r. col. 3’	(CTH 761, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, except for KUB 35.112, 13’ (no photograph of the edge available). – The restoration ḫal-[li-na-i] at KBo 29.22, 3’ follows Starke 1990a:199.

[E.R.]

No translation of the lexeme is offered in DLL:39. The semantic interpretation as an intransitive verb ‘to be sick, hurt (?)’ in CLL:48 (followed in HHw:36) was based on incomplete contexts. However, a new join by Sasseville 2021a:556f. revealed ḫallīna-⁽ⁱ⁾ to be a transitive verb. Typical sentences are: ^(4’)ḫa-a-aš-ša [ḫa-a-aš-ša-an-te-eš] ḫal-li-i-na-i ^(5’)ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-i[n ḫal-ḫal-za-na]-an-te-eš ḫal-li-na-i “The bone shall ḫallīna- the bone, the ḫ. shall ḫallīna- the ḫ.” (KUB 35.33, 4’f. (+) KBo 29.20, 4’f.). It is clear that the purpose of the action is to transfer the illness or contamination from the body parts of the ritual patron to the body part of the animal that is meant to carry away the evil. Two perspectives of the action are possible: (1) the contaminated body part of the ritual patron contaminates the body part of the animal and thus gets rid of the contamination, hence ‘to sicken, contaminate (?)’ as suggested by Sasseville 2020b:117 (and Sasseville 2021a:530f.), and ‘to hurt’ by Jasanoff 2003a:15; (2) the body part of the animal takes over the contamination from the body part of the ritual patron and thus decontaminates him, which leads to the translation ‘to decontaminate’ by Mouton, Puértolas Rubio & Yakubovich (pers. comm.), i.e. ‘to treat (and undo) contamination’ (cf. the pragmatic parallel in SAG.DU-iš-kán S[AG.D]U-aš GIG-an kar-ap-zi “the head lifts the illness of the head” at KUB 55.20 obv. 23).

[E.R.]

As pointed out by Sasseville 2021a:530f., the verb belongs to the stem class in -īna-⁽ⁱ⁾ with factitive or transitivizing function, depending on the nominal or verbal character of the base. Contra Melchert apud Jasanoff 2003a:15 n. 6, there is no way to decide between the two options in the case of ḫallīna-⁽ⁱ⁾, which can be from nominal *ḫall(i)- or verbal *ḫalli(ya)-, as is the case with ḫalliyatt(a)-.

[E.R.]

For a tentative reconstruction of the root, see under Pal. ḫalāi-.