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▪ References mostly deal with the vb. ǧaṯṯa ‘to tear out, uproot’ and the n.f. ↗ǧuṯṯaẗ ‘body; corpse, cadaver; carcass’ as distinct values. However, the former (and esp. its Gt-stem, ĭǧtaṯṯa) may be denominative from the latter, describing the action of ‘tearing out’ (pieces of flesh etc. from a dead animal body) performed by a predatory animal or others, resulting in the hollow, empty ‘carcass’. But also the inverse – ǧuṯṯaẗ derived from the vb. – is not inconceivable, though perh. less likely.
▪ Direct cognates in Akk and EthSem, perh. also Ug (and Cush) (see below, section CONC). – DRS 3 (1993) thinks one should compare Sem √GD (Ar ^†ǧadda ‘to cut’, see ↗^†ǦDː (ǦDD)_7). However, if ǧaṯṯa is based on ǧuṯṯaẗ (see preceding paragraph), there may be other and different cognates (see entry ↗ǧuṯṯaẗ).
▪ According to Lane, the poetic metre ↗muǧtaṯṯ got its name from the fact that it looks »as if cut off from the ḫafīf [another poetic metre]«. Obviously, the word is a PP of the vb. VIII ĭǧtaṯṯa, Gt-stem of ǧaṯṯa.
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▪ eC7 (ŭǧtuṯṯa, pass. of ĭǧtaṯṯa, vb. VIII) Q 14:26 wa-maṯalu kalimaẗin ḫabīsaẗin ka-šaǧaraẗin ḫabīsaẗin-i ’ǧtuṯṯat min fawqi ’l-ʔarḍi mā la-hā min qarārin ‘and the likeness of an evil word is as an evil tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, with no power to endure’
▪ Hava1899: ^†miǧaṯṯaẗ, ^†miǧṯāṯ ‘gardener’s trowel’, n.instr.
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▪ DRS 3 (1993) GṮṮ-1 Akk gašāšu ‘couper, trancher’, Ar ǧaṯṯa ‘déraciner, arracher’, ǧaṯṯ ‘arrachage’, Amh gässäsä ‘annuler, effacer, abîmer, vaincre, déflorer une fille’, Har agäsäsä ‘faire détester’, Gur ‘refuser, désobéir; être abîmé’.¹ -2 […]. -3 ↗ǧuṯṯaẗ.
▪ Zammit2002, Leslau2006: Akk gašāšu ‘abschneiden’, ?(Ug mgṯ ‘ein Lamm, zum Schlachten geeignet | fatling’), Gz gasasa ‘to scrape away, shave of, pluck out (hair)’, Te gässa ‘to wipe off with the hand, sweep’, Amh gässäsä ‘to efface, wipe out’, Gur (a)gäsäsä ‘to remove completely by cutting and digging’, Ar ĭǧtaṯṯa ‘to tear up, root up’. – Outside Sem: (Cush) Bil Sa gäsäs ‘to wipe’, Kham gis.
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1. WUS 71 rattache Ug mgt (II K 6/18), qu’il traduit par ‘agneau de boucherie’; Driver, Studia Bakos 106 et Caquot, TO 570 lui donnent le sens de ‘bête grasse’, le premier en rapportant à NGṮ, le second à GWṮ. V. MLC 574.

▪ See above, section CONC.
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►ĭǧtaṯṯa, vb. VIII, = I: Gt-stem, self-ref.

►muǧtaṯṯ, 1 adj., uprooted (also fig.); 2 n., a poetic metre: PP VIII; nominalisation in the special sense of the “cut off” metre (see above).

For other meanings attached to the root, cf. ↗ǧuṯṯaẗ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗ǦṮː (ǦṮṮ).

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