ušanda

The sole attestation of the verb is found in a fragment of a birth ritual from the Tauriša tradition.

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3pl. pret. act.

ú-ša-an-da

KBo 13.260 ii 6’

(CTH 766, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Carruba 1986a:52 translates ú-ša-an-da as ‘they brought’ in KBo 13.260 iii 6’ without further comment, obviously considering CLuw. uša- an equivalent of HLuw. (PES)u-sa- ‘to bring’. He is followed by Rieken 2004a:464f., Yakubovich 2016a:85-87, and Rieken & Yakubovich 2022a:274f., but not by CLL:245 and Poetto 2000b: 434. However, irrespective of contextual or etymological considerations, the spelling with ú- in ú-ša-an-da and its intransitive use cast doubt on the identification with the transitive verb seen in HLuw. (PES)u-sa- ‘to bring’ and CLuw. u-ša-ú-i (see under Lemma uša-⁽ⁱ⁾).

The relevant passage runs as follows: ^(5’)ku-i-in-zi zi-i-in ^(6’)ú-ša-an-da a-la-aš-ši-in-zi ^(7’)na-aḫ-ḫu-wa-aš-ši-en<-zi> i-na-aš-ši-en-zi ^(8’)pa-ri-ya-an šar-ḫa-mi-in-zi ^(9’)an-na-ru-um-me-en-zi ḫa-at-ta-in-zi ^(10’)ḫa-at-ta a-da-an-du ^(11’)ši-e-ḫu-wa-en-zi še-e-wa ^(12’)a-da-an-du pa-ri-am-ša-at-ta ^(13’) tar-za-an-du a-at-ta a-ad-du-wa-an-za ^(14’)pa-ri-ia-an ad-du-wa-li-ia-an ^(15’)wa-at-ta-ni-ia-an up-pa-an-na-an-du “those who uša-ed here – the ones related to alienation, fear, and illness, the extraordinarily courageous (literally: gutsy) ones (and) strong ones, those related to piercing shall eat piercing, those related to cutting shall eat cutting. Let them turn it beyond. Let them carry the evils over to an evil land (literally: over to the land related to the evil).” (KBo 13.260 iii 5’-12’; for the reading of zi-i-in, see under the lemma of naḫḫuwašša/i- ‘fearsome, terrifying’). The verb uša- denotes an activity that the evil opponents of the ritual patron performed in his sphere before they are now driven out, eating up and taking away with them their own evils. The spelling of uša- with initial ú- is best compatible with a syncopated *waš-, which, on account of contextual reasons, matches well with the root *waš- ‘to be extant, good’ (derived e.g. as CLuw. wāšu- ‘good’). Thus, the evil opponents would have prospered in ritual patron’s sphere und done their mischief there.

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Formally, the ending -anda leaves open more than one option to determine the stem. However, in view of the semantics ‘to do well, prosper’ suggested here, a denominative verb is very likely, hence uša-^(ti).

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