kūšattar/n-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 581
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
kūšattar/n-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested once in a medical text (see Burde 1974a:35f.) in fragmentary context.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | ku-u-ša-at-tar | KBo 21.17, 5’ | (CTH 461, NS) |
1.1.3Meaning ‘to scrape, to curry’
While editions and dictionaries do not provide any translation (Burde 1974a:35f., Tischler 2008a:87, HED:K 289f., CLL:113, Ünal 2007a:377), Starke 1990a:515 proposes a derivational relationship with kušala(i)- ‘to scrape, curry’ and speculates with all due caution that the lexeme is either the designation of a disease (‘Abrieb, Wundschorf’) or a therapy (‘Massage’).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Stem
Although no oblique case form is attested, the word clearly belongs to the heteroclitic class of -ttar/-tt(a)n- stems.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Origin
kūšattar clearly contains the action noun suffix -ttar/-tt(a)n- with fortis alveolar typical of Luwian (Starke 1990a:515, CLL:113) and can, accordingly, be regarded as originating from that language.
[E.R.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
An etymological relationship between the abstract noun kūšattar/*kušatt(a)n- and kūš(a)i- (or kūša(i)-) ‘to scrape, to curry’ is very likely, although not directly. Rather, they can be derived from an adjective *kuš-a/i- (< *kws-o-) and its abstract noun *kuš-a- (< *kws-eh2-), respectively; cf. the relationship between GIŠ.(ḪUR)gulzattar/gulzatt(a)n- ‘sketch, rough draft, wooden tablet’ and gulza(i)- ‘to draw’ (CLL:108).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *kuša-(i).