anā(i)-^(di)

The two attestations of the verb are found in the same MS manuscript, in a mythological passage from a ritual of the Tauriša tradition.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Steitler 2017a:392f. reads a-⸢na⸣-a-it-⸢ta⸣-〈〈x〉〉⸢ri⸣. However, probably no sign intervenes between -ta- and -ri, but -ri, as the last sign in the line, is moved to the right edge. – The restoration at iii 25’ relies on the parallelism of the passages at iii 4’f. und 24’f.

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As already pointed out in DLL:26, pāḫūr ‘fire’ in iii 4’ appears to be the subject of the asyndetic verbal collocation palpatittari anāittari in iii 5’. Both verbs are barely understood, but should denote actions typical for fire, such as to burn, blaze, lick, crackle, consume, or destroy. Accordingly, it was suggested by Steitler 2017a:392f., 397 that palpatittari and anāittari mean ‘to blaze’ and ‘to lick’, respectively, whereas Shevoroshkin 2014a:23 proposed ‘to consume’ for the latter. Steitler 2017a’s translation was inspired by Laroche’s (Laroche 1970a:69f.) claim that Hitt. anaḫi(t)- ‘sample, taste’ is a Luwian lexeme (but see under Lemma). Other scholars cautiously refrained from any attempt to translate anā(i)-^(di) (DLL:26, Starke 1990a:158f., CLL:13,HHw:15, Giorgieri 2012a:148f., Sasseville 2021a:82f.), which seems advisable in view of the multitude of options.

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The medio-passive forms in -āittari unambiguously belong to the verbal class in -ā(i)-^(di); cf. Sasseville 2021a:82f.

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