*sḗh_3­­-u̯r̥/*sh₃-un-é-

In Cuneiform Luwian context, only a single attestation exists; it comes from a birth ritual from the Taurisa tradition.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The semantic interpretation of abl./instr. dūnati as ‘with urine’ in Cuneiform Luwian context and its unification with nom./acc. dūr ‘urine’ (see under Lemma) into a single paradigm was first suggested by Starke 1990a:568f. He pointed out that, in addition to the resulting r/n-heteroclisy (abl./instr. dūnati, in combination with nom./acc. dūr ‘urine’), the use of dūn- as a fluid cleansing substance speaks for an equation with Hitt. šēḫur/n- ‘urine’ employed for the same purpose (on the seeming phonological discrepancies, see under Reconstruction). The Cuneiform Luwian context runs as follows: ^(8’)[an-ni-iš-k]u-wa-ti pár-na-an-za du-ú-na-ti ^(9’)[pa-ap-pár]-ku-wa-at-ti ta-a-ti-iš-pa-wa-ti-ia-ta ^(10’)[            ]-ú-i-ri-ia-ti pa-šu-ú-ri-ia-ti [pa-ap-pa-ša-at-ti] ... ^(15’)[a]n-ni-iš-ku-wa-ti pár-na-an-za ma-ad-du-ú[-wa-ti] ^(16’)[p]a-ap-pár-ku-wa-at-ti ta-a-ti-iš-pa-wa-ti-ia[-ta] ^(17’)x-ti-ia-ti pu-šu-ri-ia[-ti] ^(18’)[pa-]ap-pa-ša-at-ti “[the mother clea]nses the house with urine, but the father [rubs] it with an x-wiriyati polish. ... The mother cleanses the house with honey, but the father rubs it with an x-tiyati polish” (KUB 35.103 ii 8’-10’, 15’-18’; modified from Starke 1990a:569 and Melchert 2007b:1f.). Starke’s translation has since been generally accepted (CLL:236, Melchert 1994a:258, HHw:181, Ünal 2007a:739, HEG Š:974, Hart 2004a:345, HED ŠA:7, EDHIL:899, Kümmel 2014a:434, Oettinger 2013-2014a:170).

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As indicated under Meaning, the acceptance of Starke’s (Starke 1990a:568f.) analysis yields a synchronic ur/n-stem in Luwian, parallel to the one in Hitt. šēḫur/n-. However, both the spelling with Ú and the loss of medial -ḫ- in Luwian are most easily explained if -ḫ- was followed by a labiovelar glide (see Melchert 1994a:258, for the sound change).

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The noun is a hapax in an instruction text.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The remains of the first sign in ]x-ú-ur at KBo 16.99 i 6 is compatible with the reading suggested by Starke 1990a:568, but see Alaura 1999a:8 and 12 n. 12 with the reading as Hurr. [t]a-ú-tíš.

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The semantic elucidation of dūr ‘urine’ goes back as far as Friedrich 1934a:359 with n. 3 (followed in HW:427, DLL:100; further references listed under CLuw. dūr/n-). It is based on the contextual analysis of a curse formula, where dūr is juxtaposed with Hitt. zakkar ‘feces’: ⁽⁶⁶⁾... nu a-pa-a-aš dingir^MEŠ-aš ⸢pa⸣-ap-ra-an-da-za ⁽⁶⁷⁾a-da-an-⸢na pa-a-i⸣ a-pé-e-da-ni-ma dingir^MEŠ-eš za-ak-kar du-ú-úr ⁽⁶⁸⁾a-da-an-na ⸢a-ku-wa⸣-an-na ⸢pí-an⸣-zi “... and (if) he gives the deities to eat from defiled (utensils/wares), then the deities will give him feces (and) urine to eat (and) drink” (KUB 13.4 iii 67f.; see, e.g., Miller 2013a:260f.).

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For the stem formation, see under the lemma of CLuw. dūr/n-.

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Already Friedrich 1934a:359 recognized the foreign origin of the word on account of the gloss wedges. The specification as a borrowing from Luwian, if anyone had raised doubts, was finally demonstrated by Starke’s identification of CLuw. dūn- as the oblique stem form of the same paradigm (for references, see under CLuw. dūr/n- as well as Melchert 2005a:448 and van den Hout 2006a:242).

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CHD Š:350f.