ḫalzalummari-

This lexeme is found in an Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity.

[D.S.]

nom./acc. sg.

˹ḫa˺-al-za-lu-um-ma-ri(=kat)

KBo 30.39 iii 12’

(CTH 752, MS)

The sequence kat is here taken as an enclitic demonstrative pronoun (following Melchert 1984b:28-30); see under the lexeme ka- ‘this’. For the diverging view that -k- in -kat represent a separate morpheme and -at the instrumental ending cf. Starke 1990a:71-74, 72 n. 165, Eichner 2010a:51-53.

[D.S.] [E.R.]

The word ḫalzalummari=kat is found in a ritualistic passage, denoting something that is extinguished. Thus, ḫalzalummari- should represent something evil to be removed through a ritual.

[D.S.]

The word may perhaps represent a compound ḫalza- + lummari-, but so far neither putative component could be connected to any cognates.

[D.S.]

No etymology possible.

[D.S.]