duš(i)-

The word is found in an invocation to Išḫara in a festival text.

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acc. sg.

du-ši-in

KBo 23.41 obv.! 12’

(CTH 641, NS)

The lexeme can be most likely classified as a noun, since adjectival attributes normally precede their head noun (Yakubovich & Rieken 2026a:273).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The context of the lexeme runs as follows: ^(9’)... ⸢ma-a-an zi-ik⸣ DINGIR-LIM TUKU.TUKU-u-an-za ^(10’)[na-aš]-ma-za u-na-ti-wa-li-i[š] [m]a-a-an-ták-kán ZI-ni ku-it-ki i-da-a-lu an-da ^(11’)[ga-a]n-ga-ti-ia-〈an〉-za kar-aš-du da-aš-šu-uš ḫal-ki-iš a-⸢li⸣ u-wa-ni-ia-aš li-im-[ma-an] ^(12’)[tu-u]k A-NA DINGIR-LIM TUKU.TUKU-at-ta-an du-ši-in a-pu-uš da-an-zi na-an a-p[u-uš] ^(13’)[ap-p]a-an-zi “if you, goddess, are angry, or if you are bitchy, if something bad is in your mind, the gangati- plant shall cut it off. The heavy (i.e. ripe) grain, the limman- drink of the distant^? rock face, it is them who shall take away anger (and) duš(i)- from you, o God. It is them who shall seize it.” (KBo 23.41 obv.^! 9’-13’; modified from HEG U-Z:56f., Chrzanowska 2011a). Handbooks and editions do not provide a translation (see HEG T:464, Ünal 2007a:741, Janowsky & Wilhelm 1993a:141, Prechel 1996a:241, Chrzanowska 2011a), but it is clear that the word denotes either an aggressive state of mind (similar to anger) or a more general notion of evil (similar HHw:182: “Nomen u.B., etwas Negatives”). The latter interpretation, i.e. ‘evil’, is plausibly supported by an etymological connection with Skr. duṣ-, Gk. δυσ-, which is suggested here.

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The word can be classified as a stem with i-mutation.

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The mark with the gloss wedge and the i-mutation point to a Luwian origin (as assumed in HHw:182, HEG T:464).

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