šaḫuitantalli(ya)-

The lexeme is found only in the manuscripts of the Kuwattalla tradition.

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nom. sg. c.	[ša-ḫu-i-ta-a]n-tal-li-iš	KUB 35.74, 6’	(CTH 762, NS)
nom./acc. sg. n.	[ša-ḫu-i-da-a]n-ta-⸢al⸣-li-ia-an	KUB 35.43 ii 1	(CTH 761, NS)
	[ša-ḫu-i-t]a-an-ta-al-li-ia-an-za	KUB 35.43 ii 9	(CTH 761, NS)
abl./instr.	š[a-ḫu-i-da-an-tal-li-ia-ti]	KUB 35.19, 7’	(CTH 761, MS?)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – For the restoration of the forms, called for by several merisms of the derivatives of *šāḫuid- and *wid- including šaḫuitantalli(ya)- and witantalli(ya)-, see Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:373-375.

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The merism of šaḫuitantalli(ya)- and witantalli(ya)- describes a sheep that is used to carry away the evils that have befallen the ritual patron and from which he has to be purified by means of a substitution rite. Presenting typological and etymological arguments, Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a conclude that the bases *šāḫuid- and *wid- refer to ‘binding’ and ‘smiting’. The derived denominative -ant- adjectives are substantivized as šaḫuitant(a)- ‘bond’ (see under Lemma) and rhyming *widant(a)- ‘blow’. Finally, via the intermediate step of agent nouns *šaḫuitantall(i)- ‘binder’ and *widant(a)- ‘smiter, blower’, renewed adjectives šaḫuitantalli(ya)- ‘related to a binder’ and widantalli(ya)- ‘related to a smiter/blower’ were built with approximately the same meaning as the underlying -ant- adjectives (slightly differently Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:373-376 and Melchert, DCL:s.v., who prefer a unified suffix -alli(ya)- and a more general meaning ‘(that) of binding’ or ‘for binding’).

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For the derivational history, see under Meaning.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *šāḫuid-.