zakkit-

Attested in a Hittite instruction text (NS).

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dat.-loc. sg.	za-ak-ki-ti-i	KBo 5.11 i 1	(CTH 263, NS)
	˹GIŠ˺za-ak-ki-ti-i	KBo 5.11 i 25	(CTH 263, NS)
	GIŠza-ak-ki-ti	KUB 26.23 ii 13	(CTH 263, NS)

Attestations following CLL:275 (but KBo 5.11 is misspelled as KBo 5.1; cf. also Starke 1990a:221 [but KUB 27.13 obv. i 8 does not contain this word, cf. Wegner 2002a:277]; EDHIL:1026f.; HEG U-Z:625) checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz.

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There is a general agreement that this word means ‘doorbolt’ or similar due to its context and its Hittite form (Beal 1988a:284 [‘door-lock’]; Starke 1990a:221 [‘Riegel(bolzen)’ and in n. 750: “die Schließanlage insgesamt”]; CLL:275 [“door-latch or sim.“]; Miller 2013a:91, 93, followed by Beal 2017a:41). Nevertheless, EDHIL:1026 following Boysan-Dietrich 1987a:133–138 rightly points out that it can close not only gates, but also doors, windows, and covers of chests and thus a more general meaning ‘bolt’ is the appropriate one (cf. already Ünal 2007a:812, Ünal 2016a:601 and Tischler 2008a:230, Tischler 2016a:447).

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Starke 1990a:221 (followed by CLL:275) identified this as a Hurrian loanword via Luwian due to its -it-suffix and it was accordingly included in the list of Luwianisms of Melchert 2005a:452, but not in that of van den Hout 2007a. Ünal 2007a:812, Ünal 2016a:601 and EDHIL:1027 do not identify it as a Luwian loanword, but as a Hurrian one (nevertheless, Kloekhorst falsely claims that the Hurrian origin of zakkitī is shown by its Hurrian case ending, since this is an outdated view of Hurrian nominal morphology, cf. HEG U-Z:626). Although Tischler 2008a:230, Tischler 2016a:447; HEG U-Z:625f. shares the view that we are dealing with a Luwian word, he claims (HEG U-Z:626) that the Hurrian origin is “ohne konkreten Anhalt”. Although it is indeed not attested in Hurrian yet (cf. Richter 2012a:343), it is known from Nuzi and the Amarna correspondence (remarkably, in the inventory of gifts of Tušratta, the ruler of Mitanni, EA 22), with a presumably similar meaning (CAD S:78 s.v. sakku A ‘as a part of a lock’, cf. also AHw:1012). This makes a Hurrian background more probable than a genuine Akkadian word and the same applies to the Luwian word as well (although strictly speaking an Akkadian origin cannot be excluded either).

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