palpati-

The verb is attested twice in a MS manuscript belonging to the Tauriša tradition.

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3sg. pres. ind. med.	pa-al-pa-ti-it-ta-ri	KUB 35.107 iii 5’	(CTH 764, MS)
	[pa-al-pa-ti-i]t-⸢ta⸣-ri	KUB 35.107 iii 25’	(CTH 764, MS)

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The parallelism of the passages at iii 4’f. und 24’f. permits the restoration at iii 25’.

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Since DLL:26, the subject of the verbal collocation palpatittari anāittari (KUB 35.107 iii 5’) is generally assumed to be pāḫūr ‘fire’ (ibid. iii 4’), and therefore, most authors considered Starke´s (Starke 1990a:291 n. 987) proposal ‘to blaze’ for the former of the two verbs reasonable (CLL:165, CHDP:68f., HEGP:398, HHw:117, HED PA:69, Giorgieri 2004a:410, Bachvarova 2013a:140, Steitler 2017a:392f.; still without translation Beckman 1983a:199). Confirmation comes from the attestations in Hittite transmission, in which a plausible interpretation is provided by ^Du.gur palpadam(m)in (the war-god) Nergal and the Great Deity appearing in a blazing state and offering terrifying sights for the sorcerer. However, it should be kept in mind that other common aspects of fire and a war-god like devouring or destruction remain possible.

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Starke 1990a:158 n. 510 analyzes palpati- as “Oppositionsmedium” of palpada- attested in Hittite transmission (see under Lemma). In terms of derivation, the underlying stem can belong to either the mi-verbs in -i-^(ti) or the ḫi-verbs in -a-⁽ⁱ⁾.

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