āštaiya-(ti)
‘to perform an act of witchcraft’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2435
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
āštaiya-(ti)
‘to perform an act of witchcraft’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs five times across two subsequent lines of a NS ritual text.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | a-aš-⸢ta-ia⸣-at-ta | KUB 35.121, 9’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
| ⸢a⸣-aš-ta-⸢ia-at⸣-t[a] | KUB 35.121, 10’ | (CTH 770, NS) | |
| a-aš-ta-ia-⸢at⸣-t[a] | KUB 35.121, 9’ | (CTH 770, NS) | |
| a-aš-⸢ta⸣-i[a-at-ta] | KUB 35.121, 9’ | (CTH 770, NS) | |
| a-aš-t[a-ia-at-ta] | KUB 35.121, 9’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The fragmentary context does not permit a semantic interpretation of the word. Even its verbal character is sometimes doubted (Starke 1990a:523, CLL:38, Sasseville 2021a:37). It is only the plausible assumption that āštaiya-(ti) is the base of Luw. āštayarattar/-t(ta)n- ‘(an act of witchcraft)’, that suggests the verb denotes the performance of an unspecified act of witchcraft (see under āštayarattar-/-t(ta)n-; with more specific, but unassured translations CLL:38, HHw:28, Sasseville 2021a:37; see also the hesitation voiced by Starke 1990a:523).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The unlenited 3rd singular ending after a polysyllabic stem in -a- implies a denominal derivative from either an adjective in -i(ya)- or its substantivization or its abstract in -a- (< *eh₂-). The relational -i(ya)- adjective probably belongs to āšta- ‘(an act of witchcraft)’ in Hittite transmission (cf. CLL:38, Sasseville 2021a:37), derived with the relational -i(ya)- suffix, then substantivized with or without the non-mutating suffix -a- (< *-eh₂-) and turned into a factitive stem in -a-(ti).
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1.1.6Derivatives
For the lemma head see CLuw. āšta-.