*mr̥seh₂-

The verb occurs in a festival text, a mythological fragment, and in a fragment of unknown content.

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Cf. also mar-š[a- at KBo 29.25 iii 9. – While DLL:69 posits two stems, Melchert (CLL:140) unites the forms in a single paradigm. In Melchert 2007b:2 and Sasseville 2021a:19 with n. 4, it is explicitly stated that -au- is reduced to -u-.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Although a genetic relationship between marša- ‘treachery, sacrilege’ and the verbal forms maršuni and maršat(t)a was considered very early, thus in DLL:69, CLL:140, Starke 1990a:380f. n. 1375, no translation is offered in these handbooks (likewise HHw:101, Melchert 2007b:2) or only with hesitation (Lehrman 1998a:159), because the fragmentary contexts seemed to offer little. Only recently, Sasseville 2021a:28f. pointed out that an etymology-based semantic interpretation of marša-^(ti), the exact match of Hitt. maršaḫḫ-^(ḫi) ‘to desecrate, to make treacherous’, can at least be supported by contextual analysis. Sasseville 2021a assumes for KUB 35.133 iv 10’f. a restoration containing a negation in the lacuna. The text runs as follows: ^(10’)a-an-za-ti i-šar-⸢wi₅-li⸣-iš a-aš-ti a[n-za                            na-a-wa] ^(11’)ma-ar-šu-ni an-za-aš zag-iš “He is (one) on the right (side) from us. He is [        to u]s. We do [not] commit treachery. He is right for us” (modified from Sasseville 2021a:28f.; Melchert’s suggestion, apud Sasseville, to fill the lacuna with m[a-a-an na-a-wa] must be rejected on account of the remaining traces of the initial sign, which do not conform with m[a-). The potential opposition between marša- denoting moral failure and išarwil(i)- ‘(physically and morally) right’ speaks for the interpretation of the former being correct. KUB 35.123 iv^? 7’f. mentioning marša- together with the kingship of god Pirwa shows that the word belongs to the religious sphere, which, following Sasseville, adds to the suggested morphological and semantic correspondence between CLuw. marša-^(ti) and Hitt. maršaḫḫ-^(ḫi) ‘to desecrate, to make treacherous’ becoming plausible.

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On account of the 3sg. pret. maršatta with an unlenited ending and the equation with Hitt. maršaḫḫ-^(ḫi), Sasseville 2021a:28f. assigns the verb tentatively to the factitive class in -a-^(ti), followed in DCL:s.v., as well as here (for previous alternative considerations, see Starke 1990a:380f. n. 1375; outdated is Lehrman 1998a:159, 197f.).

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CHD L-M:195f.