ḫarra(/i)-
‘grindstone, crushing stone’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3751
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫarra(/i)-
‘grindstone, crushing stone’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations of the word are found in ritual fragments of the Kuwattalla tradition.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | [ḫar]-ri | KBo 22.143 i 8’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
| ⸢NA4arà⸣ | KUB 32.9 obv. 5 | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| abl./instr. | NA4ḫar-ra-a-ti | KBo 29.6 obv. 22’ | (CTH 762, NS) |
The attestation at KUB 35.75, 11 cited in DLL:41 and CLL:57 was republished as part of KBo 29.6. – For the restoration of [ḫar]-ri at KBo 22.143 i 8’, see Sasseville 2020b:114.
[E.R.] [D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning assignment by Laroche (in DLL:41) relies on the description of sympathetic analogy at KBo 29.6 obv. 22’f.: (22’)za-aš-pa-at-ta ku-wa-ti-in za-am-mi-ta-a-ti-iš NA4ḫar-ra-a-ti NA4ḫar-ra-a-ti[ ] (23’)a-ú-i-im-mi-iš “As this flour has come from the grindstone [ ]”. Since the only object made of stone that flour comes out of is a millstone (though not yet invented!), Laroche’s translation has been generally accepted (HW:424, HEG A-K:172, Starke 1990a:445 n. 1601, CLL:57, HHw:41, EDHIL:300f., HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:265, Kimball 2015a:68), and so it is here, though as ´grindstone, crushing stone´.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
At least the dat./loc. sg. in -i tells us that the noun cannot be a non-mutated a-stem. Thus, it is either a mutated common gender stem or a neuter a-stem.
[E.R.] [D.S.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. ḫarra-.