ḫull-
‘to fight, wrestle down (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2593
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ḫull-
‘to fight, wrestle down (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a mythical passage perhaps pertaining to the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. med. | ḫu-ul-la-r(=) | KUB 48.69, 3 | (CTH 754, NS) |
The word has been grammatically misunderstood in the literature (see HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:697 with further literature).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
The sentence with the verb ḫullar=a (+ =(y)a ‘and, also’) occurs after the bull has run up to the sky. On top of the sky, the bull is ḫulla-ed. The verb can be etymologically compared to Hitt. ḫulle/a-(mi) ‘to fight, wrestle down’ (HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:685-689, EDHIL:358-360 and see HLuw. /hul(l)iya-(i)/), which makes good sense in the context, since after the bull is wrestled down, he is covered and bound. Nonetheless, the interpretation of the passage and of its lexemes remains provisional.
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