šarriwašpa-

The only secured attestation of the word is found in a NS inventory text.

[E.R.]

nom. sg.

TÚGšar-ri-wa-aš-pa-aš

IBoT 1.31 obv. 7

(CTH 241, NS)

It is unlikely that ^TÚGšar-[ at KBo 40.114, 11’ belongs to the present lemma (thus tentatively CHD Š:263), because there is hardly enough space for the rest of the word.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The word occurs in a list of garments and, as shown by its determinative, is itself the designation of a garment. Accordingly, Götze 1956a:32, 36 assumed that ^TÚGšarriwašpa- is a compound with wašpa- ‘garments’ as its second member (see under wašpant(i)-). As for the first member, the interpretation now almost generally accepted analyzes šarri- as the Luwian adverb ‘above, up’ (following Hoffner 1966a:385), hence the semantic assignments as ‘upper or outer garment’ in CHD Š:263, ‘jacket’ in HW:454, ‘Oberhemd, Oberkleid’ in Košak 1982a:8, Siegelová 1986a:80f., Starke 1990a:431 n. 1561, ‘cloak’ in Ünal 2007a:611, ‘upper garment, overcoat’ in HED SA:173, ‘Oberkleid?’ in HEG U-Z:900f., ‘Oberkleid?, Jacke?’ in HEG U-Z:900f. Other, less plausible suggestions are listed in HEG U-Z:900f.; undecided between šarri- ‘upper’ and Hurr. šarri- ‘king’ EDHIL:733.

[E.R.]

For the composition of the adverb šarri ‘above, up’ with the a-stem noun wašpa-, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. wašš-.