ḫaḫḫapattar/n-

Attested only once, the lexeme occurs in a small ritual fragment from the MH period.

[E.R.]

nom./acc. sg.

ḫa-aḫ-ḫa-pa-at-tar

KUB 35.101 obv. 7’

(CTH 765, MS)

The classification as neuter noun in the nom./acc. sg. (instead of a medio-passive verb) is supported by the coordination with ūtar ‘word, spell’ expressed with -ḫa ‘and’ (Starke 1990a:513).

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Misread in DLL:37.

[E.R.]

Despite the fragmentary state of the tablet, the context offers the coordination with ūtar ‘word, spell’ (ibid. obv. 7’) and the antonymic verb šā-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to let go’ (ibid. obv. 6’). This gives support to Melchert’s etymology-based interpretation as ‘binding’ (CLL:46, tentatively accepted in Tischler 2008a:38). Outdated Starke 1990a:513f.

[E.R.]

Obviously, ḫaḫḫapattar can be analyzed as a heteroclitic abstract noun in -attar/-at(ta)n-, derived from the reduplicated form of the root *ḫap(p)- ‘to bind’ (for the derivational process see Starke 1990a:513f., followed in CLL:46).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hep-.