kattaluzzi(t)-
‘threshold’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2628
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
kattaluzzi(t)-
‘threshold’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the word is found in the Puriyanni ritual (MS).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | GIŠkat-ta-lu-uz-[zi-š]a | KUB 35.54 iii 29 | (CTH 758, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The agreed semantic assignment is based on the equation with Hitt. GIŠkattaluzzi- ‘threshold, lintel’ and confirmed by the occurrence of the lexeme in a list of parts of a house: “... statue, floor, pedestal, hearth, kattaluzzi-” at KUB 35.54 iii 27-29 (see Friedrich 1955a:54 building on Otten 1953a:54, DLL:54, HW:385, HEGA-K:543f., Starke 1990a:64, 210, 214, CLL:103, HEDK:124f., HHw:76, EDHIL:464, HW 2nd ed. K:59-61).
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1.1.5Stem
As pointed out by Starke 1990a:64, 210, 214 (followed in CLL:103), the Hitt. i-stem GIŠkattaluzzi- was transferred to a Luwian stem in -i(t)- in the course of the borrowing process. This is entirely parallel to the adaptation of Hurrian loans in Luwian.
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1.1.6Origin
It is agreed that GIŠkattaluzzi(t)- represents one of the few borrowings from Hittite. Diagnostic are the suffix -zzi- < *-ti- (thus Starke 1990a:214 and EDHIL:464, further references under Meaning) and the first member of the compound katta ‘below, under’, which matches CLuw. zanta.
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