wārḫuwašša/i-
‘brush (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2512
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
wārḫuwašša/i-
‘brush (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the lexeme appears in a ritual with mixed Luwian and Palaic incantations from the OH period.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | wa-a-ar-ḫu-wa-aš-ša-a-ti | KUB 35.93 obv.! 7 | (CTH 752, OS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The segmentation wa-a-ar ḫu-wa-aš-ša-a-ti in Watkins 1975a:359f. is not supported by the graphic evidence.
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1.1.4Meaning
Unfortunately, the immediate context of wārḫuwaššāti is broken away, but in the following two lines the verb form e-el-ḫa-a-ḫa ‘I washed’ is attested twice (see under īlḫa-(di)). Possibly, this genitival adjective in the abl./instr. describes or denotes the instrument of washing (HEG U-Z:325). This assumption finds further support in the fact that the participle warḫāmienzi (also built from the root warḫ-) is used in a fashion parallel to šapiyaimienzi ‘scrubbed, rubbed, cleansed’ at KUB 35.133 iii 9f. If, furthermore, the assumed etymological relationship with Hitt. warḫui- ‘rough, harsh, rugged’ is correct, then warḫāmienzi denotes ‘brushed, scraped off’ and wārḫuwašša/i- could mean ‘related to brushing’ or, substantivized, ‘instrument of brushing’.
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1.1.5Stem
As pointed out under Meaning, wārḫuwašša/i- is a genitival adjective (DLL:107, Starke 1990a:43) or a substantivization thereof (HHw:s.v., HEG U-Z:325; undecided CLL:258). For its derivational history, two options come to mind. First, a u-stem *warḫu-, also underlying Hitt. warḫui-, provides the base for the -ašša/i- formation. Secondly, wārḫuwašša/i- is built from the hypostasis of the genitive of a verbal noun in -war, which became obsolete later (cf. also naḫḫuwašša/i- ‘fearsome’). So far, there is no way to make an informed choice between these two possibilities.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. warḫa-(ti).