naḫišra-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, coll.
- ID
- 3111
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
naḫišra-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the word is found in the song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. coll. | na-ḫi-iš-ra | KUB 25.39 iv 5 | (CTH 773, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
No meaning is offered in DLL:72, CLL:152, HHw:109, and Starke 1990a:420f. Only Frotscher 2012a:171 n. 66 discusses the possible connection with Hitt. *naḫšar- in naḫšariya- ‘to be(come) afraid’, naḫšarnu- ‘to make (someone) afraid’, naḫsaratt- ‘fear’. Very tentatively, he posits a preform *nh2-i-sro- and reconstructs a verb in -āi-/i(ya)-(ḫi). However, the context of attestation does not provide any evidence to support the tempting proposal on the semantic side: (6)... na-ḫi-iš-ra ma-ra-aḫ-ši-wa-li-i[š] (6)síg-la-ni-iš an-da wa-ú-wa-li-pa-ad-da ‘... the m. wool enveloped the naḫišra’, KUB 25.39 iv 5f.
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1.1.5Stem
Starke 1990a:420f. pointed out the parallelism in formation with takkiš(ša)ra ‘(an ornament)’, but assumed a neuter formation in -ššar. However, see CLL:202 for the -šra/i- suffix in takkiš(ša)ra/i-. The analysis of the base remains tentative. Even if the relationship with the root naḫḫ- ‘to fear’ (see CLuw. naḫḫūwa-(i)) proposed by Frotscher 2012a:171 n. 66 is correct, one would prefer the assumption of a prop vowel -i- before the -šra/i- suffix.
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