āḫrušḫit-

As a Luwian loanword attested only in one fragment and in its duplicate of the (ḫ)išuwa-festival (NS).

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dat.-loc. sg.	DUGaḫ-ru-uš-ḫi-ti	KUB 25.42 rev. v 16	(CTH 628, NS)
	[DUGaḫ-ru-uš-ḫi]-ti	KBo 33.190 rev. v 4’	(CTH 628, NS)

Attestations following CLL:5 (cf. also HW (2nd ed.) A:47; HED A & E/I:12f.) supplemented with KBo 33.190 rev. v 4’ (pers. comm. of Anja Busse) checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz (the restoration based on the duplicate follows Wegner & Salvini 1991a:98). HW (2nd ed.) A:47 calls attention to two further fragmentary words that may belong to this word, but [ -ḫ]i^!-i-ti-ša-an in KUB 25.42 v 18 is to be read as [^GIŠir]-˹ḫu˺-i-ti-ša-an (Wegner & Salvini 1991a:85) and [ -]ru-uš-ḫi-ti in “KBo 14.3 Rs. 4f.” seems to be a misprint. Setting aside the fragmentary forms and those without case endings all other attestations (HW (2nd ed.) A:46f.) represent a Hittite form (i-stem, c.). Some of the forms without case endings can be identified syntactically as accusatives and thus could in theory be Luwian forms (for their list see HW (2nd ed.) A:46), but this cannot be proven.

Although the initial vowel of this form is not written plene, CLL:5 and Tischler 2008a:12, Tischler 2016a:2 rightly book it with initial plene written vowel (which is followed here too), since the word is frequently spelled plene in the Hittite forms.

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There is a general agreement regarding its meaning (CLL:5; HW (2nd ed.) A:46f.; HEG A-K:5; Tischler 2008a:12, Tischler 2016a:2; HED A & E/I:12; Wegner & Salvini 1991a:254f.; Ünal 2016a:949) due to its context and its Hurrian source (on which see de Martino & Giorgieri 2008a:42 and Richter 2012a:2f., both with refs., cf. under Origin).

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There is a general agreement that we are dealing with a Hurrian loanword in Hittite (HEG A-K:5; HED A & E/I:13) but via Luwian due to its Hurrian stem and Luwian suffix -it- (CLL:5, Melchert 2005a:452; although Ünal 2007a:9, Ünal 2016a:49 books it as Hittite, and also Luwian in Ünal 2016a:949; but not listed by van den Hout 2007a in his list of Luwianisms and by Starke 1990a:210–221 among the Hurrian loans of Luwian; this form does not contain a Hurrian ending, contra HED A & E/I:12f.).

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