atta(/i)-

The word is attested once in the NS copy of a festival text.

[E.R.]

nom./acc. sg.?

at-ta-an

KBo 7.68 iii 7’

(CTH 764, NS)

The problematic position of attan between the indefinite pronoun kuienḫa ‘someone’ (acc. sg. c.) and what seems to be an enclitic chain (=ku(=)wa=tta, also ibid. 14’, 18’) renders Melchert’s (CLL:39) tentative analysis as acc. sg. of a noun problematic. Although it is tempting to assume morphological agreement of the acc. sg. c. kuienḫa with a substantival acc. sg. attan (common gender a-stem), the particle chain indicates that there is a clause boundary between the two. Therefore, a nom./acc. sg. n. in -an remains possible and is, in fact, preferable on account of its greater frequency within the Luwian language.  DLL:34 lists the form under attan(i)-.

[E.R.]

No semantic analysis possible (see under Forms); no attempt in CLL:39, Tischler 2008a:28.

[E.R.]

For the interpretation as the nom./acc. sg. of a neuter noun in -(a)- or an adjectival -a/i- stem, see under Forms.

[E.R.]