ḫantanā-(di)
‘to find’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1098
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ḫantanā-(di)
‘to find’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the mythical passage of the Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | ḫa-an-ta-na-a-ti | KUB 32.18 i 12’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | ḫa-an-˹ta˺-[na-a]t | KUB 32.18 i 14’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘to encounter’
Carruba 1972a:10, 46f. n. 20 (also Carruba 1970a:54 with references to Kammenhuber) suggests the meaning ´to encounter´ based on contextual and etymological grounds. He relates the root of the verb ḫantanā- to Hitt. ḫant- ‘front’ and compares the Latin denominative in-contrāre ‘to encounter’ also derived from contrō ‘in face of’. The sense is supported by the context, since we know that the eagle does not find the missing deity at first: ni=ppa=an ḫantanāti ‘(He searches), but he does not find him.’
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
Oettinger 1979a:559, Melchert 1997b:133 and Yoshida 2014a:377 suggest that Pal. ḫantanā-(di) represents the same type of denominative verb as takkuwa(g)a-(di), i.e. the type -a(g)a-(ti). If this is correct, a nominal base *ḫantan- or *ḫantana- could be posited.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.