warḫītant(i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2513
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
warḫītant(i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
Two NS attestations of the lexeme are known, one from a ritual of the Kuwattalla tradition, another one from the Ištanuwa festival.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | wa-ar-ḫi-⸢i-ta⸣-ti-iš | KUB 35.29 i 5’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
| wa-ar-ḫi-ta-an-ti-iš | KUB 25.39 iv 3 | (CTH 773, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The omission of the nasal before consonant at KUB 35.29 i 5’ is not unusual.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The passages in which the word occurs do not help to elucidate the meaning, as they are either broken or lexically opaque. Etymological considerations suggest a relationship between warḫitant(i)- and CLuw. wārḫuwašša/i- and warḫa-(ti) ‘to brush, scrape off’, and thus with Hitt. warḫui- ‘rough, harsh, rugged’. This would be confirmed if Yakubovich’s (pers. comm.) suggestion that the word preceding wa-ar-ḫi-⸢i-ta⸣-ti-iš at KUB 35.29 i 5’, i.e. (-)zu-ú-wa-a-an-ni-iš, is a reflex of zuwan(i)- ‘dog’ held true. A rugged dog would indeed be a plausible concept, but see under †zuwann(i)- for the reasons why the reading and the assignment is regarded with skepticism, here. Bar other evidence, the word remains untranslated (DLL:107, CLL:258).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
In spite of the omission of the nasal at KUB 35.29 i 5’, the stem final suffix can be identified as mutating -ant-, but a specification of the part of speech as noun (thus HHw:s.v., HEG U-Z:325) or adjective must await further evidence.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. warḫa-(ti).