ḫatayann(i)-

The lexeme is attested twice in the same MS manuscript belonging to a birth ritual.

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dat./loc. pl.	[ḫa-t]a-ia-an-na-an-za	KUB 35.103 ii 12’	(CTH 766, MS)
	ḫa-ta-ia-an-na-an-za	KUB 35.103 iii 2	(CTH 766, MS)

Outdated morphological analysis as acc. pl. in DLL:44. – The assignment of (-)ḫ]a-ta-ia-an-n[a(-) at KBo 60.294, 8’ to the present lemma is not assured (cf. Melchert in DCL:s.v.).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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CLuw. ḫatayann(i)- occurs twice together with kummai(ya)- ‘pure, sacred’ in a birth ritual. In spite of several attempts to elucidate the relevant passages, they are still lexically intransparent: ⁽¹⁾⸢pa⸣-wa i-ia-an-du ^Den.zu-in-zi di[ngir-zi^?] ⁽²⁾kum-ma-ia-an-za ḫa-ta-ia-an-na-an-za ⁽³⁾⸢a⸣-pa-an ḫi-iz-za-in-du “The de[ities^?] of the ^Den.zu-a- shall go (and) entrust her (scil. the mother) in/to the pure ḫatayann(i)-.” Carruba 1968a:18 connected ḫatayann(i)- with Hitt. ḫattant- ‘clever, wise’ ignoring its deviant spelling with geminate -tt-, because it seemed to accord well with kummai(ya)- ‘pure, sacralized’. This was tentatively accepted in CLL:65 (also Shevoroshkin 1994a:162 and HHw:47), where Melchert assumed a secondary lenition of the alveolar between unaccented vowels. However, the same scholar preferred to leave the word untranslated in a more recent study (Melchert 2007b:1f.).

In the context with kummai(ya)-, one should consider the possibility that ḫatayann(i)- is derived from the root reflected in Hitt. ḫat-^(mi) ‘to dry, to become parched’. In this case, kummai(ya)- would have a more secular meaning ‘pure, clean’, and with regard to hygiene the meaning ‘dry’ would be semantically very close. If substantivized with the -ann(i)- suffix, the lexeme perhaps means something like ‘drying personnel, drier, wiper (?)’.

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In contrast to the lexical problems, the stem formation of ḫatayann(i)- is clear: starting from the root ḫat- (‘to dry’, see under Meaning), a non-mutated -a- abstract noun was formed, which served as the base for a relational adjective in -i(ya)-, derived in turn with the individualizing suffix -ann(i)-.

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