/huttalli-(ti)/, (ARMA)hu-ta-li-
‘to smite, strike’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2363
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/huttalli-(ti)/, (ARMA)hu-ta-li-
‘to smite, strike’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Karkamiš dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. | /huttallitta/ | (ARMA)hu-ta-li-i-ta-a | KARKAMIŠ A24a2+3, §7 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this verb is provisional, because it is not clear if the word has cognates in the other Anatolian languages.A link with HLuw. /hudarl(i)-/ ‘servant’ and its word family seems unlikely, cf. Hawkins 2000a:136, who deems it possible, but not at all obvious. Yakubovich 2019a:545 assumes a shape /huttalli-(ti)/ for the verb, but does not discuss the reasons for his choice. It is possible that the /-ll-/ assumed to be geminate here should be singleton instead, resulting in a shape /huttali-(ti)/.
As a logographic determinative, ARMA is also found with other word in the corpus such as /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’ and related words, as well as some verbs from the same semantic domain.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Even though the word is attested but once in the HLuw. corpus, its meaning can be gleaned from context and spelling at least in a general way, cf. Hawkins 2000a:136. The logogram ARMA is found with words from the domains of weapon and exerting power such as /tub(a)i-(di)/ ‘to strike’ and /muwa-(i)/ ‘to conquer’, and it is therefore highly likely that /huttalli-/ belongs to the same sphere. KARKAMIŠ A24a2+3, §7 reads: a-wa/i a-sú+ra/i(REGIO)-ia-na-´(URBS) (FLAMMAE?)ma-ru-sà-na-ti-i (ARMA)hu-ta-li-i-ta-a, approx. /a=wa Asuriyan marusanadi huttallitta/, probably translating as ‘(When the Assyrian king led away the storm-god Tarhunt of Aleppo), he (scil. the storm-god) smote Assyria with a firebolt?’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:135, Yakubovich 2019a:545). Further textual finds may facilitate a fine-tuning of the semantic interpretation.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The verb shows an i-containing stem of the unlenited mi-conjugation, viz. /-i-(ti)/ (Yakubovich 2019a:545, for the stem class see Sasseville 2021a:218f.). The derivational base appears to be an otherwise unattested (substantivized?) adjective */huttalla/i-/ vel sim.
[AH.B.]