palpada-
‘to blaze (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2180
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
palpada-
1.1.1Transmission
The participle occurs in two parallel passages in Hittite birth rituals (NS) heavily interspersed with Luwianisms.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| part. acc. sg. n. | ⸢pal⸣-pa-da-mi-in |
KBo 13.241 rev. 19’’ | (CTH 767, NS) |
| ⸢pal⸣-pa-[da-mi-in] | KUB 35.145 iii 11’ | (CTH 767, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The Du.gur palpadamin ‘(the war-god) Nergal in a blazing? state’ and dingir.gal dingirLIM palpa[damin] “the Great Deity, the palpadamin deity” are requested to provide a terrifying sight for the evil sorcerer. For the tentative assignment of the meaning ‘to blaze’ and the respective references, see under palpati-.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The stem formation remains unclear. Although it is tempting to analyze palpad- as a full reduplication with dissimilation of *d...d > l...d, i.e. < */pad-pad-/, other options are possible as well, e.g., a root *palp- with an abstract suffix -at(i)- transformed to a factitive verb in -a-(ti), but also palpada(i)-(di) or palpada-(i). All solutions would be compatible with Starke’s (Starke 1990a:158 n. 510) view that palpatittari is an “Oppositionsmedium” of palpada-.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
The obvious relationship with CLuw. palpati-, the form of the Luwian participle, and the use of the gloss wedges for palpadamin in a context that also features many other Luwianisms indicates clearly a Luwian origin (Laroche 1971b:149, Beckman 1983a:199, Starke 1990a:158 n. 510, CLL:165, CHDP:68f., HEGP:398, HHw:117, HEDPA:69, Bachvarova 2013a:151, Steitler 2017a:392f.).
[E.R.]