taršiya-⁽ⁱ⁾

The sole attestation of this verb comes from a mythological passage originating in the Tauriša tradition.

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3pl. pres. act.

tar-ši-i[a-an-ti]

KUB 35.107 iii 7’

(CTH 764, MS)

Restoration as a present tense form against Starke 1985b:238, CLL:217, Steitler 2017a:392 (cf. the present tense forms ibid. iii 5’).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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In the mythological context of KUB 35.107 iii 4’-7’, the gods invited by the Sun-god are confronted with a fire in the sky. As a reaction they “taršiya- all (acc. pl. c.) three times.” Without a general understanding of the context and the lexemes involved, the assumption of a mistake, viz. acc. pl. c. punatinza instead of nom. pl. c. punatinzi (thus considered in CLL:179 and accepted in Steitler 2017a:397) is methodologically unacceptable. As pointed out by Sasseville 2021a:136f., the verb must be kept separate from tarši-^(ti) ‘to trample on’ and tarš(a)i-^(di) ‘to trample on (?)’, because a 3pl. stem in -iya- is incompatible with their stem classes. Accordingly, none of the semantic proposals made for them (see under the respective lemmata) automatically applies to taršiya- and, moreover, ‘to trample’ does not make sense in the given context. Nor is there any indication that taršiya- might mean ‘to vomit, belch’ (thus CLL:217, followed by Yoshida 2014a:381 n. 20, Yakubovich 2017d, and Steitler 2017a:397, considered also in HHw:170; no translation in Sasseville 2021a:136f.; unclear HEG T:226; withdrawn in DCL:s.v.). Therefore, the verb remains untranslated, until further evidence emerges.

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Based on the plural stem in -iya- alone, no decision can be made between tarši(ya)-^(di), taršiya-^(ti), and taršiya-⁽ⁱ⁾. However, although the connection with the 3sg. pres. act. taršiya-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘?’ (see below) cannot be firmly established on semantic grounds, it tips the scales in favor of the last option.

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