(-)š]āriyaḫ(i)-

The form is found in a fragment from a ritual fragment perhaps of the Kuwattalla tradition.

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nom. pl.

(-)š]a?-a-ri-[i]a-ḫi-i[n-z]i

KBo 13.264 r. col. 6’

(CTH 763, NS)

With only two Winkelhaken and a vertical wedge of the first sign after the break still visible, the reading of the form as suggested in DCL:s.v. is far from certain.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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If the reading is correct, the word is one of the rare instances of a common gender stem in -aḫ(i)- (like ḫarmaḫ(i)-; see Sasseville 2021a:213). Melchert (ibid.) connects the word with Hitt. šariya- c. ‘line, row’ and proposes a tentative meaning ‘lineage (?)’. Besides the etymological argument, he points to the putative mention of a kinship term (šeš ‘brother’, but reading is unlikely) in the immediate context of the form under discussion and to [ḫ]arduwattinzi šāriy[a-…] at KBo 29.49 rev.^! 7 (containing ḫarduwatt(i)- ‘descendent’). In view of the uncertainties attached to every step of the analysis, no translation is attempted here.

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For the stem formation, see under Meaning.

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