ḫajāttu

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Variant: ḫajjattu (?)
Meanings:
fit, attack (of illness)
de:German: Deutsch Anfall, Ausbruch (einer Krankheit)
fr:French: Français crise, accès (de maladie)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: ḫjṭII/j (mediae infirmae)pattern: PaRāSt
Logogram: NÍG.LÁ+
Etymology: Derived < ḫīʾāṭu
2 Lexical
Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) NÍG.LÁ : ḫa-a-a-at-ti CunMon. 49/2, 107 o. 8′. Commentary Sakikkû III 43. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) ḫa-a-a-át-[tu g]ilittu CunMon. 49/2, 185 r. 10f. “attac[k (of illness) (refers to) t]error”. Commentary Sakikkû VII (unkown entry). Note also Wee 2019, 195: 1′ (ḫa-a-a-át-t[ú] : puluḫti). Probably a confusion due to the equation ḫa-a-tú = gilittum in Malku IV 212 (see Hrůša 2010, 106). new

1Further Attestations

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṣīdāna iraššīšumma ⸢enūma ⸣ ⸢ NÍG⸣.LÁ-šú iḫīṭaššu ṭēmšu inakkiršumma Sakikkû III 43 “it causes him an attack of vertigo and, when the fit overwhelms him, his reasoning changes for him”. new

Discussion

For the interpretation of the term as “fit, attack (of illness)” (derived from and used with the verb ḫīʾāṭu), see also Stol 1993, 42–46.

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