ḫantalliyā(i)-(mi)
‘to dare’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1105
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫantalliyā(i)-(mi)
‘to dare’1.1.1Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | ḫa-an-da-li-ia-i[t] | KUB 23.57, 4’ | (CTH 214, MS) |
| ḫa-an-tal-l[i-ia-it] | KBo 16.8 ii 24’ | (CTH 61, NS) | |
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | ḫa-an-da-al-li-˹i˺-e-er | KBo 4.4 iii 63’ | (CTH 61, NS) |
| unknown | ˹ḫa-an˺-tal-l[i- | KBo 18.67, 2’ | (CTH 190, NS) |
1.1.2Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.3Meaning
The semantic interpretation of ḫantalliyā(i)-(mi) ‘to dare’ goes back to Götze 1933a:249 and is widely accepted (see HW:53, 350, Kronasser 1966a:497, HEG A-K:154f., HED Ḫ:108, HW 2nd ed. H:168, Starke 1990a:130, CLL:52, Tischler 2008a:53). It is based on the contexts in Annals of Muršili, e.g. KBo 4.4 iii 62’f.: (62’)nu-mu-za nam-ma UDKAM.ḪI.A za-aḫ-ḫi-a-u-wa-an-zi Ú-UL [ ] (63’)ḫa-an-da-al-li-˹i˺-e-er ‘They no longer dared to wage battle against me in daytime.’ The construction with infinitive also attested in KBo 16.8 ii 24’ adds further support on the syntactic side.
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1.1.4Stem
It is common sense that the verb is denominative and derived from an adjective *ḫandalla-, *ḫantali- or *ḫantalli-, which is nowadays classified as a stem in -alla/i- (van Brock 1962a:129, Kronasser 1966a:497, Oettinger 1979a:354 n. 201, HEG A-K:154f., implicitly HED Ḫ:108, Starke 1990a:130, CLL:52). Hitt. ḫantalliyā(i)-(mi) belongs to those verbs whose suffixes are transferred from Luw. -i(ya)- into Hitt. -iyā(i)- stems, in the course of the borrowing process (cf. Oettinger 1979a:382-385).
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1.1.5Origin
Luwian origin was already assumed in CLL:52 and Melchert 2005a:450. It is not absolutely assured, but highly probable. Evidence for this assumption comes from use of the suffix -alla/i- and the verbal stem in -iyā(i)-(mi) (see under Stem).
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For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.