†akni-

The alleged gloss wedge marked lexeme †akni- occurs in the birth ritual of Pittei (KBo 13.241 rev. 10”, NS) as x /GAM ak-ni (checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv). The reading akni (with question mark) is suggested in HW 2nd ed. A:53, Ünal 2007a:12, HHw:12 (following the hand copy and communication by Heinrich Otten). Other editors of the text offered no reading beyond the sign names A GAM AG NI or even less (Beckman 1983a:178f., Giorgieri 2004a:410, Bachvarova 2013a:139). However, after the initial A above the NI of the preceding verb pāiweni, it seems clear that the GAM sign cannot be interpreted as a gloss wedge.

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