ḫ/kuwalapant(i)-

The sole attestation of the word is found in a song incipit from an Ištanuwa festival text (NS).

[E.R.]

abl./instr.

⸢ḫu/ku-wa⸣-la-pa-an-ta-ti

KUB 35.139 iv 10

(CTH 773, MS)

CLL:125, modifying DLL:63, analyzes the form ending in -an-ta-ti-du as an abl./instr. with an enclitic personal pronoun =du. This has become even more likely with the reading suggested here, according to which ⸢ḫu/ku-wa⸣-la-pa-an-ta-ti-du occupies the first slot of the clause (see under Graphic Features).

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Starke 1985b:338 (followed in CLL:125, s.v. lapant(i)-) reads [   ]x-aš la-pa-an-ta-ti-du in line iv 10. However, there is no space before -la-, and obviously, the alleged -aš sign must be identified as the final horizontal wedge of -wa-. At the beginning of the line and in front of -wa-, the rest of a vertical permits a reading ku- or ḫu-. As a consequence, the lemma †lapant(i)- must be recognized as a ghost word (posited in DLL:63, CLL:125, and HHw:92).

[E.R.]

The context, limited to ⸢ḫu/ku-wa⸣-la-pa-an-ta-ti-du ti-ia-mi-i[n, does not permit a semantic interpretation. Nevertheless, it is tempting to connect the putative abl./instr. ḫuwalapantati (if to be read thus) to ḫuwalpanati in waddati=tta  zanta ḫuwalpanati ‘down from the hump-backed mountain(s)’ at KBo 4.11 rev. 40, a text that also contains song incipits from the Ištanuwa festival. The problem of this proposal lies in the unexpected spelling of the cluster -lp- as 〈-la-p°〉, which renders the proposed connection highly speculative.

[E.R.]

At least, the stem final suffix seems clear, viz. adjectival (or substantivized) -nt(i)-; cf. CLL:125.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. ḫuwalpa-.