šarḫam(i)-

The lexeme occurs only once in a ritual from the Tauriša tradition.

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nom. pl. c.

šar-ḫa-mi-in-⸢zi⸣

KBo 13.260 iii 8’

(CTH 766, NS)

The spelling with a singleton -m- as well as the meaning speak against the common interpretation (Starke 1990a:393 n. 1416, CLL:189, HHw:144, Yakubovich 2017d) as a participle of šarḫ- (or šarḫa(i)-^(di)?) ‘to activate/empty one’s womb (vel sim.)’ (see under lemma head).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Haas & Thiel 1978a:288f. argued plausibly that, on account of the asyndetic coordination of pariyan šarḫaminzi annarumenzi ‘the extraordinarily šarḫam(i)- (and) strong ones’, the two lexemes should have very similar meanings and represent a hendiadyon; cf. ^(5’)ku-i-in-zi zi-i-inThe collation of the photograph revealed that the former reading zi-i-in-⸢za⸣ is erronous. The alleged word-final -za under the flaked surface turned out to be non-existent. ^(6’)ú-ša-an-da a-la-aš-ši-in-zi ^(7’)na-aḫ-ḫu-wa-aš-ši-en<-zi> i-na-aš-ši-en-zi ^(8’)pa-ri-ia-an šar-ḫa-mi-in-zi ^(9’)an-na-ru-um-me-en-zi “those who prospered here – the ones related to alienation, fear, and illness, the extraordinarily courageous (literally gutsy) ones (and) strong ones”  (KBo 13.260 iii 5’-9’, see under the lemma of naḫḫuwašša/i-). In view of the root šarḫ- shared with the noun šarḫuwant- ‘womb, belly’ (from ‘having innards, guts’) and the coordination with annarumm(i)- ‘strong individual’, a meaning ‘courageous individual’ (literally ‘gutsy person’) is suggested here.

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Instead of the participial interpretation rejected under Forms, a derivative with the suffix -(a-)m(i)- is a much better solution with regard to both the agentive meaning and the spelling. On the suffix used in, e.g. ānninniyam(i)- ‘cousin’, see Melchert 2014a:208f.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. šarḫadu.