ḫartuwaḫartuwa-

This lexeme is found in a ritual of Tunnawiya and in a land donation text from Tutḫaliyas IV. to Šaḫurunuwa.

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abl./instr.	ḫar-tu-u-wa-ḫar-[t]u-wa-ti	KUB 12.58 iv 13	(CTH 409, NS)
unknown	ḫa-ar-du-wa-ḫa-a[r-du-wa(-)	KUB 26.43 obv. 65	(CTH 225, NS)

With only an abl./instr. fully attested, it is impossible to identify the grammatical gender of the stem, but in view of the meaning, a plurale tantum or collective noun is likely (see also under Stem). – Cf. also ḫar-t[u- at KBo 27.77, 5’ preceded by [ḫamšu]kkalāti ‘including the great-grandsons’. – Contra HW:61 and Kronasser 1966a:191, there is no reason to assume a Hurrian ending -ti or -ta.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – HED H:202 reads ḫar-tu-u-wa-⟨aš⟩-ḫar-[t]u-wa-ti at KUB 12.58 iv 13 (assuming a haplographic omission of -aš-), but this is unlikely, since the simplex can probably be restored already at the end of iv 12 (see under Meaning).

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With Forrer’s translation of HLuw. /hartu-/ as ‘Ur-Urenkel’ in mind, Goetze 1938a:22f. and 96f. suggests an “iterative” translation ‘generation by generation’ or ‘in successive generations’. The assumed basic sense finds confirmation in the sequence seen in KUB 12.58 iv 11-13, but the use of the ablative points to a different syntactic understanding: ⁽¹¹⁾... nu-za-kan é-er ⁽¹²⁾iš-tu dumu.nita^MEŠ dumu.munus^MEŠ ḫa-aš-še-et ḫa-an-za-aš-ši-it [ḫar-tu-u-w]a-t[i] ⁽¹³⁾ḫar-tu-u-wa-ḫar-tu-wa-ti qa-tam-ma šu-un-ni-id-du “likewise, let her fill (her) house with sons, daughters, grandchildren (and) great-grandchildren, with [descen]da[nts] (and) descendants upon descendants!” (cf. likewise CLL:61, HHw:s.v., HED H:202, EDHIL:317, Schaffner 2010-2011a:105-107; similarly Imparati 1974a:32f., Starke 1990a:521 n. 1924: ‘mit Ururenkeln und Urururenkeln’). The alternative, i.e. an -att- stem ḫarduwaḫarduwatt- in the dat./loc. sg. meaning ‘in successive generations’ (assumed in HW:61, DLL:43, Kronasser 1966a:191, HEG A-K:189, Weitenberg 1984a:235, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:381, Ünal 2007a:188), seems the less likely in view of the preceding comitative instrumentals, to which the Luwian abl./instr. ḫartuwaḫartuwati would have been simply added in the most natural manner.

For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that a similar list of descendants also occurs at KUB 26.43 obv. 65: [dumu]^MEŠ ḫa-aš-šu-uš ḫa-an-za-aš-šu-uš ḫa-ar-du-wa-aš ḫa-ar-du-wa ḫa-ar-du-wa-ḫa-a[r-du-wa(-) “children, grandchildren (and) great-grandchildren, descendants of descendants (and) descendants upon desc[endants].”

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While HED H:202 restores the genitive ending -aš in the first part (see under Graphic Features) and regards the resulting ḫartuwa⟨š⟩ḫartuwa- as a syntagma of a genitive with a head noun, other authors interpret the attested stem ḫartuwaḫartuwa- more plausibly as a compound (Kronasser 1966a:121, HEG A-K:189, Weitenberg 1984a:340 n. 629, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:381, Schaffner 2010-2011a:106, 108). For similar formations in Hittite, cf. ḫuḫḫa(-)ḫanniš and ḫašša(-)ḫanzašša (Brosch 2010a:272f. with references). Although the abl./instr. in -uwati is ambiguous between stems in -u- and -wa-, the latter is supported by the first member of the compound ḫartuwa- (contra van den Hout 2006a:248: u-stem), which in turn points to a collective in -a-.

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The most likely interpretation as a Luwian abl./instr. form in -ati implies a Luwian origin for the word (since Goetze 1938a:95f., see DLL:43, CLL:61, HHw:s.v., Melchert 2005a:449f., van den Hout 2006a:248, EDHIL:317, Schaffner 2010-2011a:105-107).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *ḫartu-.