kūš(a)i- or kūša(i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 582
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
kūš(a)i- or kūša(i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested in a Luwian ritual following a mythological narrative about the wrath of a deity (for a recent comprehensive edition and commentary of the text see Steitler 2017a:387-399; cf. also Starke 1985b:236-242, Groddek 2007a:317-326 and Torri 2010a:384-388).
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1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | ku-u-ša-a-in-ta | KUB 35.107 iii 20’ | (CTH 764, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The reading is checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘to scrape, grate’
Based on the suggestion of Starke 1990a:328 that kūšainta is a cognate of kušala(i)- ‘to curry, comb’, Melchert (CLL:113) assumes a meaning ‘to scrape, grate’ for the former. This is accepted by Rieken & Sasseville 2019a:531f., who are the able to elucidate the sentence as whole. Within the context of the fashioning of a substitute head for the ailing head of the patient, mannwannin anda tamma kušainta means “they scraped in cuttings (to be) the nose”, thus confirming the semantic interpretation of kūšainta (accepted in Steitler 2017a:393, 399).
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1.1.5Stem
The stem of the verb kūšainta could be kūša(i)-(di), i.e. a denominative derived from a nominal base in -a-, or a causative-iterative in -(a)i-(di). This must be left open until further attestations are found.
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1.1.6Origin
For the reconstruction of this lexeme see under the lemma head CLuw. */kusa-(i).
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