†ḫallu(wa)ḫḫatar

Neumann 1978a:130f. proposed to explain the name of the Cilician river Kalykadnos (today’s Gök Su, cf. Tischler 1977a:71) from the gen. sg. of a Luwian abstract noun *ḫallu(wa)ḫḫatar ‘Eintiefung’ from a factitive verb *ḫallu(wa)ḫḫ- ‘vertiefen, eintiefen’ based on the Hittite adjective ḫallūwa- ‘deep’, which fits the geographical features of the river. This was rejected by I. Hoffmann in HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:85 without arguments (“nicht zu beweisen”), but was followed by Schürr 2003c:72 (although objecting that no verbal abstracts from factitive verbs are attested). While Schürr’s objection is not necessarily lethal, there is a more serious problem: the factitive form is Hittite, but the preserved consonant cluster -dn- in the abstract suffix is Luwian. Thus, the only possibility is that the Hittite factitive verb was borrowed into Luwian. This is, of course, entirely possible, but prudence dictates to leave this question open (at this juncture it must be noted that Neumann explained the by-form Kalydnos as reflecting *ḫalluwatar, a Luwian abstract noun directly derived from the Hittite adjective [implying the borrowing of the Hittite adjective in Luwian or the existence of a homonymous adjective in Luwian], but the form Kalydnos may originate in the confusion with the homonymous river name in Epirus, cf. Tischler 1977a:71).

[Zs.S.]