maršuḫli(t)-

The sole attestation of the lexeme occurs in a NS oracle report.

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gen. adj. nom. sg. c.

mar-šu-uḫ-li-ta-aš-ši-eš

KUB 16.29 obv. 31

(CTH 578, NS)

For the recognition of the Luwian genitival adjective, see Laroche 1970b:135.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The fragmentary context (]-eš mar-šu-uḫ-li-ta-aš-ši-eš ^GIŠšú.a-ḫi gùb-an “[The ... ]s (are) m., the ‘seat’ is on the left”, CHD L-N:201) does not permit a semantic interpretation beyond the statement that the word is an extispicy term (Laroche 1970b:135, CHD L-N:201, HHw:102, Ünal 2007a:434).

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CHD L-N:201 points to the fact that maršuḫlitašša/i- “looks like a Luw. genitival adj. in -ašši- from a Hurr. term in -uḫli-.” The intervening step not mentioned in CHD is the suffixation with -i(t)- (maršuḫli(t)-) in the course of the borrowing from Hurrian to Luwian (HEG L-N:147).

[E.R.]

If the derivational analysis under Stem is correct, the term must be a borrowing from Hurrian into Luwian and further into Hittite (CHD L-N:201, HEG L-N:147).

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