wattarwiza-

A hapax, the word is attested once in a text related to the cult of the goddess Išḫara (NS).

[E.R.]

nom./acc. pl. n. or stem form (?)

TÚGwa-at-tar-wi5-za

KUB 40.2 rev. 20

(CTH 641, NS)

While HEG U-Z:449 indicates that the word may continue after the break (^TÚGwattarwiza[(-)), the photograph clearly shows before the next word a space larger than that drawn in the handcopy.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The lexeme occurs in a list of items to be provided for the cult of Išḫara, following “two sets of scraggy blankets” and itself followed by a lacuna and vessels in the next line. However, this does not necessarily mean that the ^TÚGwattarwiza- are blankets as well (thus HEG U-Z:449). In fact, the specification as a garment (Götze 1940a:66f., HW:250, Ünal 2007a:797, HHw:s.v.) is unfounded, rather the word could denote virtually any type of cloth or garment.

The stem formation of the word is transparent, showing the productive ethnic suffix -izza- attached to the place name Wattarwa (Forrer 1938a:179f., del Monte & Tischler 1978a:481f., HEG U-Z:448: located in the Ḫulana River-land to the West of the Maraššantiya River). Accordingly, the cloth or garment is called the “Wattarwean” one.

[E.R.]

The use of the -izza- suffix assigns the lexeme to the stems in -a-. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether the form is a stem form used after the numeral “3” belonging to a common gender a-stem or a substantivized adjective in the neuter nom./acc. pl.

[E.R.]

The combination of the place name Wattarwa, associated with Luwian wattarittaru (see under Lemma) in the ritual for the Tutelary Deity of the Hunting Bag, and the Luwian suffix -izza- provide sufficient evidence for the Luwian origin of the ^TÚGwattarwiza-.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see *wattar/n-.