tišni(t)-

Both occurrences are found in a single text, a medical recipe.

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dat./loc. sg.	UZU⸢ti⸣-i-iš-ni-ti	KUB 44.64 i 13	(CTH 461, NS)
	⸢KUŠti⸣-i-iš-ni-i	KUB 44.64 ii 14	(CTH 461, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The tīšni(t)- functions as a receptacle for medical ingredients (Burde 1974a:48f. and Poetto apud Starke 1990a:209; see also CLL:227, HHw:177, HEG T:382f., Ünal 2007a:719, Zubieta Lupo 2022a). In view of the determinatives KUŠ for leather items and UZU for body parts and meat, Haas 2003a:115 suggests plausibly that it was made from an animal bladder or stomach.

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Starke 1990a:2009 was the first to understand that the dat./loc. sg. forms tīšnī and tīšniti go back to a single stem tīšni(t)- adapted in Hittite in two distinctive ways as -i- and -it- stems respectively. His view is now generally followed; cf. Rieken 1999a:384f. n. 1931, Haas 2003a:115, Simon 2020c:420f., Simon 2020c:181Outdated is Burde 1974a:48f. positing a heteroclitic stem tiššar/tišn-.

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On account of the stem final suffix -i(t)-, the word is regarded as a borrowing from Luwian (see under Stem), but its ultimate origin is seen in a Hurrian term for a vessel (thus Starke 1990a:209, Simon 2020c:420f.; see Richter 2012a:462f. for references and the possibility of a Wanderwort). However, any such hypothesis has to accommodate the two contradictory facts that the determinatives point to a container made of body parts, whereas the tišnu vessel (attested in Alalaḫ) is made of metal.

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