*wašḫat(t)a- (?)
‘wašḫa-like vel sim.’
- Language
- Common Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 1394
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Old Assyrian transmission
*wašḫat(t)a- (?)
‘wašḫa-like vel sim.’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from a personal name attested in the documents of the Old Assyrian Colony period.
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1.1.2Forms
| Ú-uš-ḫa-ta | MAH 16206, 3 |
The attestation follows Yakubovich 2010d:220 (cf. also Laroche 1966b:200 No. 1453) checked against the hand copy, no photo was available), see under Origin for other proposed, but formally not fitting cases.
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1.1.3Meaning ‘wašḫa-like vel sim.’
Even if this word is indeed an adjectival derivative of Luwian wašḫa- (see the discussion under Origin), its meaning cannot be defined more precisely since the meaning of wašḫa- is only approximately known (an implement, see the discussion s.v.).
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1.1.4Origin
Yakubovich 2010d:219f. cautiously proposed that four names attested in the Old Assyrian documents, viz. Ú-uš-ḫa-ta, Uš-ḫu-pá, Wa-áš-ḫu-pá, and Wa-áš-ḫu-ru (for the attestations of the latter three see there, already Garelli 1965a:21 connected these names, but considered them as of unknown etymology) are compound names containing the Luwian word wašḫa- as their first element (Melchert 2013c:40 accepts this analysis of Uš-ḫu-pá / Wa-áš-ḫu-pá and explains the second member as *uba- ‘donation’ attested until now only as the verb upa- ‘to furnish, grant’, see s.v.; Kloekhorst 2019b did not deal with this group in his overview). However, there is no known Luwian way of suffixation or composition that could explain the loss of the stem-final -a- in the case of Uš-ḫu-pá, Wa-áš-ḫu-pá, and Wa-áš-ḫu-ru and thus, they cannot contain this Luwian word. As for Ú-uš-ḫa-ta, it is hardly a compound name (no formally fitting Luwian noun *(a)t(t)a- is attested and due to its form, this is not even expected), but, formally speaking it can regularly be explained as a derivative from wašḫa- with the Luwian suffix -t(t)a- building adjectives from nouns (Melchert 2003b:196; Ú-uš-ḫa-ta would then be regularly from *Wašḫata-). The problem is thus that there is no independent evidence for the claim that this formally fitting solution is indeed the origin of this name (note that according to the text, the father of Ú-uš-ḫa-ta has a Hittite name, Ḫapuašu, cf. Kloekhorst 2019b:129f. with refs.).
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Last updated: 24 November 2020