dušdušša-⁽ⁱ⁾

The sole attestation of the putative lexeme is found in a ritual fragment related to the Kuwattalla tradition.

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unknown

du-uš-du-uš-[ša-

KUB 35.68, 17’

(CTH 763, NS)

For the restauration of the stem final suffix, see Starke 1985b:395. On account of the position of the word before the paragraph line, it most likely represents the predicate verb.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Due to the fragmentary context, the meaning assignments depend entirely on the assumed derivational relationships and etymologies. Carruba 1970f:85 (and Carruba 1976a:141f.) connects the stem with Hitt. išdu- ‘(MP) to become known’.  Probably with the alleged passive participle dušdum(i)- in mind, Starke 1985b:395 n. 41 (followed in CLL:237, HEG T:470, EDHIL:419) translates it transitively as ‘to make known’. In contrast, Yakubovich (pers. comm.) sees the closest cognate of the putative dušdušša-⁽ⁱ⁾ and dušdum(i)- in dūwa-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to place’, and therefore postulates a meaning ‘to place around’. However, the context does not give a clue that would permit to decide the issue.See HEG T:465 for an earlier untenable suggestion by Ajchenval’d et al.; no translation in DLL:100, HHw:182.

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Starke 1985b:395 restores the verb as an imperfective in -šša-. For a derivative of the base verb *dušdu-, see dušdum(i)-.

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