patḫina-⁽ⁱ⁾

This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

3sg. pret. ind. act.

pa-at-ḫi-na-at

KUB 35.165 obv. 6

(CTH 751, OS or MS)

Outdated Carruba 1972a:29 “abl./instr.”.

[D.S.]

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[D.S.]

The verb is found between two important actions of the festival. In the first action, the bread is cut by the king and queen. Then, the king and queen perform patḫina and, then, Zaparwa invites the gods to take a piece of bread. Since the root of the verb must be patḫ-, we can posit an etymology with the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂- ‘to spread’ (Sasseville 2019a:27 n. 33). The direct object of the verb patḫina- is šapāman, which could mean ‘(bread) meal (vel sim.)’ (see under lemma), which would support the semantic assignment of the verb. Therefore, we could translate tentatively patḫinat šapāman ḫān[tan] with ‘(The king and queen) spread out (or distributed) the warm (bread) meal’. We suggest here tentatively the meaning ‘to spread’ for Pal. patḫina-⁽ⁱ⁾ (Sasseville 2019a:27, contra Tischler 2008a:142 “type of bread, meat or animal”.

[D.S.]

On Palaic verbal stems in -ina-⁽ⁱ⁾, see Sasseville 2021a:529-541.

[D.S.]

For an Indo-European etymology, see under Meaning.

[D.S.]