išḫaranti
‘having blood (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 674
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
išḫaranti
‘having blood (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival text.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. (?) | iš-ḫa-ra-an-ti | KBo 13.265 5’ | (CTH 753, NS) |
| [i]š-˹ḫa˺-ra-an-ti | KUB 35.163 ii 23’ | (CTH 753, NS) |
For the grammatical interpretation of iš-ḫa-ra-an-ti as a verbal form in the 3rd plural present see Kammenhuber 1959a:62, 74, Carruba 1970a:57. A different possibility is to take *išḫarant- as an adjective in -nt- derived from a nominal base išḫar- ´blood´ or as a participle derived from a verb išḫara-. Also possible due to recent progress is an instrumental form of the substantive ēšḫa(n)- ´blood´, for which see under Pal. kwāpna-.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
Carruba 1972a:53 suggests two hypotheses regarding the meaning of the Palaic lexeme išḫara-. First, he suggests an association with Hitt. išḫarišḫ- ‘to suffer the disease of the Ishara-deity’, but admits that the context does not support this interpretation. Second, he compares Hitt. ēšḫar ‘blood’ and the potential Palaic lexeme ešḫur/ēšḫa(n)- and suggests a denominative verb ‘to stain with blood’. The connection with blood is tenable, although the grammatical role and the exact word formation remain uncertain; see above.
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For the lemma head see Pal. ešḫur/ēšḫa(n)-.