zarniya-

The hapax is attested in a NS copy of the OH Ištanuwa festival.

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Dat./loc. sg. in KUB 25.39 iv 9 following HEG:W-Z 673 and Sasseville 2021a:408.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. – The AR sign is either written over erasure or corrected, but its reading is beyond doubt.

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The lexeme, which reminds of the toponym ^URUza-ar-ni-ia-a-aš (Bo 86/299 i 20) in Hittite contexts, is interpreted by Tischler (HEG W-Z:673) as a topographic entity. It occurs in the incipit of a song within the Ištanuwa ritual: pa-a-ta a-ú-i-du za-ar^!-ni-ia pár-ḫa-ad-du na-im-ma-an-za KI.MIN “and let him come chase it, the (re)turned, to the zarniya, ditto” (contrary to Tischler’s translation, which is syntactically impossible). The little context we have does not allow any specification of the location the naimmanza is driven to. It may also be some kind of man-built place vel sim.

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The dat./loc. sg. in -iya can belong to a mutated -i(ya)- stem or a non-mutated -iya- stem. Also the toponym ^URUza-ar-ni-ia-a-aš can go back to either stem, by transfer to the Hittite a-stems, or without change be based on a Luwian a-stem.

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1. Zarniya-LÚ (PN) (Laroche 1966b:no. 1537, HEG:W-Z 673)

1. Zarnizza- (DN) (HEG:W-Z 673, if from zarniya-)