marḫīna-(i)
‘to invite as a guest’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 723
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
marḫīna-(i)
‘to invite as a guest’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found on an Old/ Middle Hittite tablet of the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | mar-ḫi-i-na-an-ta | KUB 35.165 rev. 23’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The verb marḫīna-(i) is used transitively and takes the god Zaparwa as a direct object. Yakubovich 2005c:118f. n. 40 suggests the meaning ‘to treat as a guest’ based on the etymological connection with mārḫa- c. ‘guest’ and the verb marḫ- ‘to come as a guest’ (followed in Melchert 2016d:204). However, the context demands rather the meaning ‘to invite as a guest’, because the following sentence implies that he may not have come as a guest.
[a=]an marḫīnant(a) mān=aš marḫanz(a)
‘They invited him (scil. Zaparwa). If he has come as a guest….’
No suggestion is offered in Carruba 1970a:63 or in Carruba 1972a:31. Oettinger 1979a:281 suggests the meaning ‘to cut into pieces’ based on a etymological connection with Hittite mārk-(ḫi) ‘to cut’. His hypothesis is rightly rejected by Melchert 1984b:22, who points out that Zaparwa is the direct object of marḫīna-(i), and, therefore, the meaning ‘to cut’ cannot be correct.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Pal. marḫ-.