šūšte
‘be(come) full!’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 379
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
šūšte
‘be(come) full!’1.1.1Transmission
This word is attested in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| unclear | šu-u-uš-te | KUB 35.165 obv. 1 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| [š]u-u-uš-te | IBoT 2.36 obv. 2 | (CTH 751, NS) |
The word could be interpreted as a verbal form in the 2nd imperative. On the other hand, Melchert (pers. comm.) suggests segmenting a reflexive particle =ti in šu-u-uš=te, which is very appealing. See under Meaning.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. The word division is different in Kammenhuber 1959a:13, where šūšte and ḫanda are taken as one word; cf. Carruba 1970a:71. Although there is no space between šūšte and ḫanda in IBoT 2.36, the fact that another word stands between them in KUB 35.165, i.e. ˹ḫa-ši˺, speaks against a unitary word.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word šūšte occurs right after the god Ziparwa has been summoned to eat bread. In a parallel text (IBoT 2.35 + KBo 19.150 obv. 7), the word tēmaḫ occurs instead of the sentence šūšte (ḫaši) ḫānda. The ending -e is also found in a-ri-e, where it is interpreted as the ending of the 2nd person singular imperative. Since the god Ziparwa stands in the vocative right before the word šūšte, it is tempting to take šūšte as an imperative as well. Moreover, if the semantic assignment of ḫaši as ´satiate!´ is correct, it would bring further evidence for the interpretation of šūšte as an imperative: nū Ziparwa šūšte ḫaši ḫānda “Hey Ziparwa, šūšte! satiate! They (scil. the bread) are warm.”.
On the other hand, if one takes -te as the reflexive particle =ti of the second person singular, the word šu-u-uš can be best interpreted as a cognate of the Hittite adjective šūu- ´full´ (see HLuw. /su-/). Therefore, the sense would be ´Be(come) full!´. This hypothesis is overall superior to the one presented above.
[D.S.] [E.R.]
1.1.5Origin
Kammenhuber 1959a:13 and Carruba 1970a:71 suspect a Hattic origin of the word šūšte based simply on the fact that the meaning of the word and its grammatical inflection are not understood. Due to the lack of evidence for a Hattic origin, the word must be treated by default as Palaic. For a new analysis, speaking against a foreign origin, see under Meaning.
[D.S.]