šāriyani-(ti)
‘to treat with a curry comb’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3730
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
šāriyani-(ti)
‘to treat with a curry comb’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the verb comes from a MS manuscript that has been assigned to the Ištanuwa festival texts.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. impv. act. | ⸢ša⸣-a-⸢ri-ia⸣-ni-in-du | KBo 32.126 obv. 4’ | (CTH 772, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Since the publication of KBo 32.126 in 1990, the verb remained unnoticed (see e.g. HEG Š:896, EDHIL:727,Yakubovich 2017d). Only recently, Melchert listed it in his dictionary without translation (DCL:s.v.), yet pointing to its likely base noun CLuw. šār(r)iyan(i)-, which he describes as an “[i]mplement used by midwife.” Based on the semantic interpretation of šār(r)iyan(i)- as ‘curry comb’, the denominative verb can now be rendered as ‘to treat with a curry comb’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The 3pl. impv. form in -indu suggests a denominative verb in -i-(ti), built from CLuw. šār(r)iyan(i)- ‘curry comb’.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. šār(r)iyan(i)-.