turaḫ(i)-
‘(a wooden tool)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3332
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
turaḫ(i)-
‘(a wooden tool)’1.1.1Transmission
The two attestations come from an isolated NS ritual fragment.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | GIŠtu-ra-ḫi-en-zi | KUB 35.97, 2’ | (CTH 764, LNS) |
| unclear | t]u-ra-ḫi-i[n(-) | KUB 35.97, 11’ | (CTH 764, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
In principle, the determinative GIŠ points to a wooden tool or a plant (HHw:181). The fragmentary context being wholly uninformative, the only suggestive indication for the former comes from the likely, but unprovable relation with GIŠtūr(i)- ‘lance, spear’, for which see DLL:100, CLL:236, HEG T:457.
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1.1.5Stem
Under Meaning, a derivational relationship with GIŠtur(i)- ‘spear’ is assumed to be likely. This implies that GIŠturaḫ(i)- contains a suffix -aḫ(i)- for common gender nouns as seen in ḫarmaḫ(i)- ‘head’ (distinct from -aḫi(t)- for neuter abstracts); cf. Starke 1990a:386 n. 1397a and Sasseville 2021a:213f.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. tūr(i)-.