warḫa-^(ti)

The attestations of the verb appear in ritual incantations and a festival text (all NS).

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3sg. pret. ind. act.	wa-ar-ḫa-at-ta	KBo 29.28, 4	(CTH 765, MS?)
	wa-a[r-ḫa-at-ta]	KBo 29.29, 6’	(CTH 765, MS?)
part. nom. pl. c.	]wa-ar-ḫa-a-mi-en-zi	KUB 35.133 iii 10	(CTH 665, LNS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

While the context of KBo 29.29 (+) KBo 29.28 is hopelessly destroyed, KUB 35.133 iii 7-11 offers a list of participles describing objects in a positive state to be transferred by magic analogy. One of those participles (line iii 9) is šapiyaimienzi interpreted as ‘scrubbed, rubbed, cleansed’ (see under šapiyā(i)-^(di)). Since also the adjective warḫuwašša/i- is mentioned in combination with a verb of cleansing (ilḫa-^(di) ‘to wash’), this could support the claim that warḫa- is a verb of cleansing itself. Given the meaning of Hitt. warḫui- ‘rough, harsh, rugged’, which by its phonological shape is a putative cognate, it is likely that warḫa-^(ti) is a near-synonym of CLuw. šapiyā(i)-^(di) ‘to scrub, rub, cleanse’ and means something like ‘to brush, scrape off’.

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Both the forms and the meaning point to a factitive stem in -a-^(ti); cf. the plene -a- in the participle, which excludes a root verb, and the unlenited ending, which is incompatible with a stem in -a(i)-^(di).

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