āšḫarnu-

The sole attestation of this word is in a NS copy of a ritual of Kuwattalla.

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Contra Starke 1990a:556 and following CLL:36, the form āšḫarnummainzi is assigned to a different lemma; see under Lemma āšḫarnumma(i)-^(di)(?).

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz

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The participial form, attested in broken context, is not mentioned in Otten 1953a:36-41 or DLL:33, but Starke 1990a:556 (accepted in CLL:36) analyzes it convincingly as belonging to a stem āšḫarnu- ‘to bloody’, equivalent of Hitt. ē/išḫarnu- ‘id.’. The transparent combination of base word āšḫar/n- ‘blood’ and causative/factitive -nu- suffix justifies the semantic interpretation as ‘to bloody’, as proposed by Starke.The same morphologigal analysis was wrongly suggested for āšḫanuwant- earlier, in Otten 1953a:36-41 and DLL:33. However, the outcome of the semantic interpretation that is based on this false formal analysis is correct, see under Lemma 675āšḫanuwant(i)-.

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The -nu- verb is based on a denominative verb in -i(ya)-, which lost that suffix in the process of secondary derivation (see Starke 1990a:556).

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1. āšḫarnumma(i)-^(di)(?)

EDHIL:256-260, HEG A-K:112-115, HED A, E-I: 305-313, HW:43, HW (2nd ed.) E:115-122, Tischler 2008a:33

For the lemma head see CLuw. āšḫar/n-.