tattawali(t)-

The substantive is attested only once in a Luwian birth ritual (NS).

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CLuw. tattawali(t)- is listed without meaning in DLL:95, Starke 1990a:224 and CLL:223. The first attempt to provide a semantic interpretation is found in Oettinger 2015d:276. The author argues that tattawali(t)-, which is used in the same context as partarīnali(t)- ‘?’ (KUB 35.115, 6’) and mūtamūtali(t)- ‘nuzzling area’ (KUB 35.115, 8’), also denotes a location typical of an animal, as does mūtamūtali(t)- for the pig. On etymological grounds, he assumes that tattawali(t)- means ‘standing ground (for an animal)’ derived from reduplicated tā- ‘stand’, i.e. tatta-. This is possible, but far from assured. Moreover, it is highly doubtful that transitive tatta- with unknown meaning is the reduplicated form of tā-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘stand’. Since it can be considered a second option for a derivational base of tattawali(t)-, the latter must remain semantically obscure.

Based on the contextual parallelism with mūtamūtali(t)-, which is derived with a combination of the suffixes -al(i)- and -i(t)-, the same can be assumed for partarīnali(t)- and tattawali(t)- (Oettinger 2015d:276). Even if the derivation from reduplicated tatta- is correct (see under Meaning), the function of the putative intermediate deverbal -wa- is unclear. Together with the insecurity of the meaning, the proposed analysis is rendered speculative.

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For the lemma head see tatta-.