/annatt(i)-/, á-na-ti-

This lexeme is attested three times in the HLuw. corpus, although one of the attestations is mostly destroyed. Dating to the late 8^th and early 7^th century BCE, the inscriptions are located in the centre of the HLuw. area in Tabal as well as in the south-east in Commagene and Cilicia.

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nom. sg.	/annattis/	á-na-ti-sá	KULULU lead frag. 1, §8 (Tabal)
		[...]-sá	BOYBEYPINARI 2, IV§1 (Commagene)
acc. sg.	/annattin/	MATER-na-tí-na	KARATEPE 1 Hu., §3 (Cilicia)

The form found in BOYBEYPINARI 2, §1 is severely damaged because it occurs at the start of the second stone block, whose corner is broken off, yet the word can be contextually inferred.

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The reading of this word relies mainly on its syllabic attestation on KULULU lead fragment 1, which is combined with the evidence from cognates recorded in different writing systems, e.g. CLuw. ānn(i)- ‘mother’. However, the context of á-na-ti-sá in KULULU lead frag. 1 is quite opaque, and it is hence unclear whether the word is correctly identified as belonging to the present lexeme.

Following Laroche 1958b:187f., Kloekhorst (EDHIL:174) also considers an alternative interpretation, /anant(i)-/, which is possible from an orthographic point of view, but less convincing when considering its morphology, see the discussion of stem below.

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The meaning for /annatt(i)-/ was first put forward by Bossert 1948a:170, 180 in his edition of the bilingual inscription from Karatepe, based on the Phoenician version of the clause with a different word order: l-’b w-l-’m ‘as father and as mother’, whereas the HLuw. version runs MATER-na-tí-na tá-ti-ha, i.e. /annattin tadin=ha/ ‘mother and father’. For the HLuw. formation, no semantic difference can be detected when comparing /annatt(i)-/ to its cognates without a similar suffix in the other Anatolian languages, e.g. CLuw. ānn(i)- ‘mother’, although it is possible that the form in /-tt(i)-/ used to have a more specialised meaning when it was first created.

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The lexeme is built from the noun /ann(i)-/ ‘mother’, for which the HLuw. corpus holds no evidence, but which is attested a number of times in CLuw. (see under lemma) and has cognates in the other Anatolian languages, e.g. Hittite anna- ‘mother’ (cf. EDHIL:174; HED A:55-57; HEG A:24f.). The suffix /-tt(i)-/ can be denominal and serves to create forms designating individuals (Yakubovich 2015b:6.2, Sasseville 2021a:55 n. 41). Building common gender nouns, it is subject to i-mutation.

Outdated is Laroche 1958b:187f. (followed e.g. by Kloekhorst in EDHIL:174), who suggests a reading of /anant(i)-/ and a connection with /huhant(i)-/ ‘grandfather’.

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1. /annattinn(i)-/

For the lemma head see HLuw. */ann(i)-/.