ḫapazuwalatar/n-

The noun is a hapax that occurs in a mythological text.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – In contrast to ḫapanzuwant-, the nasal before -z- is omitted. – Reading [ḫa-pa-an-z]u-wa-la-tar at KUB 24.27+ ii 32 suggested in Lebrun 1980a:332 is contextually probable, but not supported otherwise.

[E.R.]

The context is part of a direct speech of the fisherman who wants to persuade his wife to participate in his treachery and explains to her what he considers her duty: ]x-za MUNUS-aš-ma ḫa-pa-zu-wa-la-an-ni a-ra-an-za nu-kán LÚ-aš [me-mi]-ia-an Ú-UL wa-aḫ-nu-uz-zi ‘If a woman, however, has reached/stands in ḫapazuwalatar, she does not turn the word of (her) husband.’ The meaning of the abstract noun in -atar can obviously be sought in the semantic range suggested by the cognate ḫapanzuwant- ‘loyal, trustworthy’, describing the characteristics he expects of his wife. Accordingly, the translations proposed center around this semantic field: DLL:41 ‘sûreté, confiance (?)’, HEG A-K:161: ‘Vertrauen’, CLL:54 ‘in obedience’, Melchert 1988b:236f. ‘state of obedience’ (followed in Maier 2013a:206-208), CHD L-N:306b and Hoffner 1998b:87 ‘in … subordination(?)’, Pecchioli Daddi & Polvani 1990a:176 ‘in condizione subordinata’, HED H:118 ‘dependability’, Tischler 2008a:44 ‘im Vertrauen’, HW²:215 ‘Treue, Ergebenheit’, Ünal 2007a:167 ‘dependability, in obedience’.

[E.R.]

The word is a Hittite abstract noun in -atar/-ann- based on an l-suffix (cf. van Brock 1962a:103, Weitenberg 1984a:185), probably an agent noun in -ala- c., which in turn is built from a Luwian base, either *ḫapanzu- or *ḫapanzuwa-.

[E.R.]

The final suffix -atar/-ann- being Hittite, the association of ḫapazuwalatar with Luwian that is very likely expressed by the gloss wedges must depend on the base *ḫapanzu(wa)-, indirectly attested also in Hieroglyphic-Luwian.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hep-.