ašrulāḫi(t)-

The word is found once in a NS copy of an incantation ritual.

[E.R.]

nom./acc. sg. n.

aš-ru-la-a-ḫi-ša

KUB 35.125, 4’

(CTH 766, NS)

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.

[E.R.]

The lexeme co-occurs with zidāḫi(t)- ‘masculinity’ within an incantation. Obviously, the ritual client was deprived of masculinity and/or something else. In the following four lines of the next paragraph, women are mentioned (MUNUS-att(i)-). The contextual evidence lead Otten 1953a:33 as well as Meriggi 1957a:222 to interpret the word as abstract noun for ‘feminity’ with semantics complementary to ‘masculinity’. This was generally followed (see e.g. HW (2nd ed.):423, CLL:37, Carruba 1982a:2, Oettinger 1986c:123-125, Starke 1990a:160f., 170f. et al., HEG Š:861, Ünal 2007a:73, Yakubovich 2013a:91, et al., but still differently Laroche 1959a:34: “Sens inconnu” and Weitenberg 1984a:294).

[E.R.]

CLuw. ašrulāḫi(t)- is one of the ubiquitous deadjectival abstract nouns, based on ašrul(i)- (see already Otten 1953a:33). Contra Starke 1990a:160f., 162f. (followed by Oettinger 1986c:124), no verb ašrul(a)i- as intermediate step is needed.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see Luw. *asr(i)-.