irḫātta(/i)-
‘row, series, circuit’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2359
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
irḫātta(/i)-
‘row, series, circuit’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found in several NS tablets of festival texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | ir-ḫa-ti | KUB 25.32 ii 27’ | (CTH 681, NS) |
| KUB 25.32 iii 12’ (over erasure) | (CTH 681, NS) | ||
| ir-ḫa-a-a[t-ti] | IBoT 2.19, 5’ | (CTH 684, NS) | |
| ir-ḫa-a-at-ti | KUB 27.70 ii 16 (over erasure) | (CTH 681, NS) | |
| ir-ḫa-at-ti | KBo 39.152, 4’ | (CTH 681, NS) | |
| [i]r-ḫa-at-ti | KBo 39.152, 2’, 3’ | (CTH 681, NS) | |
| unknown | [i]r-ḫa-at-ta-an-za | KUB 20.74 vi? 9’ | (CTH 628, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
In the course of treating the word family of Hitt. arḫa- ‘line, boundary’ and irḫā(i)-(mi) ‘to make the rounds, to treat in succession’, Laroche 1948-1949a:21f. elucidated also the meaning of the dat./loc. sg. irḫātti ‘à la file, tour à tour’ in the context dingirMEŠ ḫumandeš (acc. pl.) irḫatti akuwanzi “they drink all deities in their turn” (KUB 25.32 ii 27’). The translation is adopted in the dictionaries (DLL:52, HW:83, HEG A-K:55, HED A, E, I:130, HW 2nd ed. I:85, CLL:91, HHw:62, Ünal 2007a:262, EDHIL:245).
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1.1.5Stem
The attested case forms do not permit to identify the underlying stem class with any certainty. If an inner-Hittite formation derived from irḫā(i)-, an -att- stem is likely. In Luwian, the same is possible (-a-tt(i)- c., thus DLL:52, HEG A-K:55, HW 2nd ed. I:85), but also a neuter stem in -a-tt(a)- (Rieken 1999a:127), or even a common gender stem in -tta- (CLL:91, HED A, E, I:130).Outdated Laroche 1948-1949a:21f.
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1.1.6Origin
A Luwian origin was considered or even positively acknowledged in HW:83, DLL:52, HEG A-K:55, McMahon 1991a:65 n. 50, CLL:91, HED A, E, I:130, Rieken 1999a:127, van den Hout 2006a:250, HHw:62, Melchert 2013a:303, HW 2nd ed. I:85. The probability of the hypothesis depends on whether the verb irḫā(i)-(mi) ‘to make the rounds, to treat in succession’ in Hittite texts is a genuinely Hittite word and the base of the present lemma, or the entire word family of irḫa- including irḫā(i)-(mi) is Luwian.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *irḫ(i)-.