muḫat(ta)ra-
‘(a tool)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1240
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
muḫat(ta)ra-
‘(a tool)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested exclusively in NS copies of the incantation for a sick child, which is part of the Tauriša tradition (Mouton & Yakubovich, pers. comm.).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | mu-ḫa-at-ra-am(=) | KBo 13.260 ii 2 | (CTH 766, NS) |
| mu-ḫa-ta-ra-an | KBo 13.260 ii 20 | (CTH 766, NS) | |
| mu-ḫa-ta-ra-an | KBo 13.260 ii 21 | (CTH 766, NS) | |
| [m]u-ḫa-at-ta-[ra-an] | KBo 29.27 i 11’ | (CTH 766, NS) |
Reading of [m]u-ḫa-at-ta-[ra-an] at KBo 29.27 i 11’ against Starke 1985b:263 (with a misprint).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The varying spellings -tra-, -tara- and -ttara- indicate a phonological sequence /-ttra-/ for the suffix following Starke 1990a:400. Contra Starke 1985b:261, the emendation of <-at-> at KBo 13.260 ii 20f. is not necessary to standardize the defective spelling. – The unusual ending -am (instead of -an, see Melchert 1994a:248) before the possessive pronoun is possibly due to preservation in non-final position.
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1.1.4Meaning
The generic semantic interpretation as a tool relies on the understanding of pur(i)- ‘tray(?)’, kalmiyann(i)- ‘little stick’, kaldunn(i)- ‘shank’, warpann(i)- ‘(a weapon or tool)’, ḫattara- ‘hoe’ (derived from ḫatt- ‘to pierce’) and GIŠtur(i)- ‘spear’ or ‘(a garden tool)’, which occur immediately before and after the present item in parallel constructions (see CLL:150 and more explicitly Yakubovich 2019a:554). The use of the suffix -t(ta)ra- for instrument nouns points in the same direction.
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1.1.5Stem
The combination of a non-mutation stem with an acc. sg. in -an/-am and a common gender possessive pronoun =šan (as opposed to neuter =ša (< *=šat) ibid. iii 12’) speaks for a common gender stem in -a- (< *-eh2-) (David Sasseville, pers. comm.). More specifically, the suffix -t(ta)ra- must go back to *-treh2- built on the neuter instrument suffix -ttar- (< *-tro-), for which see Starke 1990a:399-418.
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1.1.6Origin
No etymology possible.
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