ḫartuwatt(i)-
‘descendant’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2417
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫartuwatt(i)-
‘descendant’1.1.1Transmission
Only a single attestation of the lexeme in a NS ritual fragment can be regarded as assured.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | ⸢ḫar⸣-tu-wa-at-ti-in-zi | KBo 29.49 obv.? 7’ | (CTH 756, NS) |
Cf. also ḫar-t[u- at KBo 27.77, 5’ preceded by [ḫamšu]kkalāti ‘including the great-grandsons’.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Starke’s (Starke 1985b:386, followed in CLL:61) restoration ḫar-d[u-wa-at-ti- at KBo 29.49 obv.? 4’ is more than optimistic: only the sign har- and perhaps half a head of a single horizontal wedge of the following putative -du- are preserved on the edge of the tablet. This rest could also belong to many other signs.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Regarding the ambiguous sign ḪAR with the possible reading ḫar and ḫur, the former is generally preferred on etymological grounds (see under Meaning).
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1.1.4Meaning
Nothing in the fragmentary context points to a meaning ‘descendant’. It is solely etymological considerations that lead to this translation, because it is implicitly or explicitly assumed that a collective base noun *ḫarduwa ‘group of descendants’ (cf. HLuw. ḫartu-) is derived with the suffix -att(i)- (implicit DLL:43, Weitenberg 1984a:299, CLL:61, HED H:202, HHw:s.v., EDHIL:317, Schaffner 2010-2011a:105-107; similarly Starke 1990a:115, assuming a suffix -tti-). Since the body of the word is long enough to render a coincidence unlikely, it is also accepted also here.
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