šāla-
‘(a type of harness), leather strap’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3058
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
šāla-
‘(a type of harness), leather strap’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs in two fragmentary texts, one of which is a (probably MH) letter.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. or coll. | KUŠša-a-la | KUB 35.152 iii 6’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
| gen. adj. nom. sg. c. | ša-la-a-aš-ši-iš | KBo 29.38 obv. 4’ | (CTH 769, MS?) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Outdated is the reading as uruša-a-la-pa[(-) in Otten 1953a:108.
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1.1.4Meaning
The contexts of both attestations are extremely fragmentary. Therefore, the semantic assignment as ‘part of a harness’ (DLL:84, CLL:185, HHw:140, HEG Š:752f.) depends on that of Hitt. KUŠšāla-, which vacillates between ‘(part of harness)’ and ‘leather strap’ (see HEG Š:752f. and CHD Š:81f. for references). Further evidence is required for reaching a final decision.
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1.1.5Stem
The form KUŠša-a-la in -a would speak for a thematic neuter stem, although a collective nom./acc. of a common gender noun (like Hitt. KUŠšāla-) cannot be entirely excluded.
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