zuḫrit-

As a Luwian loanword attested only in the horse training text of Kikkuli (NS).

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dat.-loc. sg.	Úzu-uḫ-ri-ti-i	KUB 1.13+ i 3, iii 2.52	(CTH 284, NS)
	[Úzu-uḫ-ri]-ti	KUB 1.13+ iii 33	(CTH 284, NS)

Attestations following CLL:285 (cf. also Kammenhuber 1961b:366; Starke 1990a:220, Starke 1995a:116 n. 226; HEG U-Z:777f.; not included in Laroche 1959a) checked against the photos of the Konkordanz. Some scholars treat the determinative as a part of this word and accordingly read it as uzuḫri- (Otten 1971b:1; Neu 1986a:161; CHD P:47; EDHIL:936 [falsely defining it as dat.-loc. pl.]; Ünal 2007a:776, Ünal 2016a:575 [as a Hittite word, but zuḫrit- as a Luwian word, Ünal 2016a:977]), although this is certainly false, as its Hurrian form without the determinative in KBo 20.126 iii 47 (Haas 1971a:162, Haas 1984a:75, Haas 1989a:268f., Haas 1995a:515 n. 1; HEG U-Z:187) as well as its Hurrian cognate zuḫrušše ‘meadow, pasture’ (Richter 2012a:405 with refs., see already Wilhelm 1992a:247f.) show.

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There is a general agreement on contextual grounds that this word means ‘grass, hay’ (Starke 1990a:220, Starke 1995a:116 n. 226; CLL:285; Tischler 2008a:235, Tischler 2016a:460; Ünal 2016a:977) or, more precisely, only ‘grass’ (Friedrich 1952a:240; Kammenhuber 1961b:311, 365f.; EDHIL:936; HEG U-Z:778), cf. also the Hurrian abstract zuḫrušše ‘meadow, pasture’ based on *zuḫri (Wilhelm 1992a:247f.; Giorgieri 2000a:204). Nevertheless, the passages with this specific form indicate the place where the horses are driven in autumn (e.g. KUB 1.13 i 3-4), thus the meaning here is clearly abstract, i.e. not simply ‘grass’, but ‘meadow, pasture’ (as already proposed by Sturtevant 1936b:189 and E. Masson 1998a:43, 50, 52, 53).

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There is a general agreement that this is a Hurrian loanword (Otten 1971b:1, EDHIL:936), but it must be a Hurrian loanword via Luwian due to its suffix -it- (Starke 1990a:220f., cf. also Starke 1995a:116 n. 226; CLL:285; HEG U-Z:778, accordingly listed in the list of Luwianisms of Melchert 2005a:449, but not included in the similar list of van den Hout 2007a; cf. also Tischler 2008a:235, Tischler 2016a:460), fully supported by its Hurrian form zuḫri ‘grass’ and the derived zuḫrušše ‘meadow, pasture’ (Richter 2012a:405 with refs.). The Hurrian derivation without Luwian intermediary from the Hurrian directive singular in -ta (Kammenhuber 1961b:366; Friedrich 1952a:240 with further refs.) is outdated, in view of its transparent and productive derivational morphology there is no need for assuming any Hurrian influence behind the ‹t›, contra HEG U-Z:778.

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