ḫueri

This lexeme is attested in the festival for the Palaic pantheon, and once in a mythological context of the ritual for the disappearing deity.

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unknown	ḫu-e-ri	KBo 19.152 iv 16’	(CTH 751, MS)
	ḫu-e-ri	KBo 19.153 iii 11’	(CTH 751, NS)
	ḫu-e-ri(-)	KUB 35.168 i 10’	(CTH 752, OS)

The assignment of ḫu-e-ri(-) (KUB 35.168 i 10’) to this paradigm is not certain due to the fragmentary nature of the passage and the possibility that the word is incomplete.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

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In the Palaic passage where the verb ḫueri is attested, animals are sacrificed to the god Zaparwa. It is said in the context that the sacrificial meats are warm, continuing:

                ā=anta tabarnaš ^dZaparwātai takkuwāti kuiša ḫueri mišgašaš (KBo 19.152 + KBo 27.77 obv. 15’-16’)

                ‘The Tabarna shows to Ziparwa whichever of the mišga ḫueri’

            kuiša ḫueri šeḫḫan[naš] (KBo 19.153 iii 11)

                ‘…whichever of the šeḫḫātar ḫueri’

The status of the word ḫueri is obscure. Carruba 1972a:49 suggests a verb ḫuer-⁽ⁱ⁾ with the semantics of ‘speaking’, because he interprets the following clause as a beneficial formula (differently Sasseville 2019a:26). Melchert 2016f:291 n. 12 prefers to take ḫueri as a noun in the dative singular and suggests tentatively the meaning ‘taste (vel sim.)’. Without a convincing etymological approach or further attestations, it is impossible to decide which lexical status the present word has, let alone give more details on its semantics.

[D.S.]

No etymology possible.

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