šāḫuidāl-
‘medium for binding (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 3105
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
šāḫuidāl-
‘medium for binding (?)’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations of the noun known so far come from ritual fragments of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | [š]a-⸢ḫu-i-da-a-la-ti⸣ | KUB 35.20 rev. 9’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| ša-ḫu-i-da-la-ti | KUB 35.73, 6’ | (CTH 763, NS) | |
| [š]a-a-ḫu-i-ta-la-ti | KUB 35.73, 9’ | (CTH 763, NS) | |
| ša-ḫu-i-t[a-la-ti] | KUB 35.74, 7’ | (CTH 762, NS) | |
| [ša-ḫu-i-t]a-la-ti | KBo 29.37, 3’ | (CTH 763, NS) |
The assignment of the neuter gender is based on the analysis of šāḫuidāl- as an instrument noun in -al- (see under Stem).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘medium for binding or substitute for binding (?)’
No meaning was assigned to šāḫuidāl- in DLL:84, CLL:184 and HHw:138. Its first in-depth treatment was done only recently by Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a. The two scholars demonstrate that several derivatives of the bases *šaḫuit- and *wit- form merisms in the context of the purification rituals from the Kuwattalla tradition. The items designated by the instrument nouns šāḫuidāl- and witāl- serve as tools for “assisting the gods in removing the malign phenomena” (ibid. 376) of the ritual patron, which, on typological and etymological grounds, are specified as ‘binding’ and ‘smiting’. The concrete nature of the tools is unknown, but a generic ‘medium for binding/smiting’ or ‘substitute for binding/smiting’ as considered by Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:376f. certainly constitute likely options.
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1.1.5Stem
Following Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:376, šāḫuidāl- derives from *šāḫuid- ‘binding (?)’ (base *šaḫu- + suffix -i(t)-), built with the instrument noun suffix -āl-.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *šāḫuid-.