āššiwantattar-/-t(ta)n-

The lexeme occurs exclusively in rituals of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

[E.R.]

nom./acc. sg.	a-ši-wa-a[n-ta-at-tar]	KUB 9.36, 2’	(CTH 760, NS)
	a-aš-ši-wa-an-t[a-at-tar]	KUB 32.5 iv 8’	(CTH 759, NS)
	[a-aš-ši-wa-a]n-ta-at-tar	KBo 29.19, 6’	(CTH 760, NS)
gen. adj. nom. sg. c.	a-aš-ši-wa-an-ta-at-ta-na-aš-ši-[iš]	KUB 35.46, 4’	(CTH 761, NS)
	a-aš-ši-ú-wa-an-ta-at-t[a-na-aš-ši-iš]	KUB 35.49 iv 12’	(CTH 761, MS)
gen. adj. acc. sg. c.	a-aš-ši-⸢ú⸣-[wa-an-ta-at-ta-na-aš-ši-in]	KUB 35.11, 3’	(CTH 760, NS)
	a-aš-ši-wa-an-ta-at-ta-na-aš-ši-in	KUB 35.45 + KBo 29.3 iii 19’/3’	(CTH 760, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The restoration of a-aš-ši-wa-an-t[a-at-tar] at KUB 32.5 iv 8’ follows Starke 1990a:448.

[E.R.]

CLuw. āššiwantattar-/-t(ta)n- regularly appears in a list of evils: tapāru-, tatariyam(ma)n- ‘curse’, ḫīrū(t)- ‘perjury’, āššiwantattar-/-t(ta)n-, and māyašša/i- eme-a/i- ‘tongue of the multitude, slander’. Its meaning ‘poverty’ as suggested first by Meriggi 1957b:65 n. 2 was founded on that of the nearly homophonous Hitt. ašiwantatar ‘poverty’ and confirmed by the contrast of its adjectival base word āššiwant(i)- ‘poor’ with ḫappinaḫḫaḫḫi ‘I make rich’ a line after (KUB 41.32 i 9’f.; see under Lemma). In spite of Kammenhuber’s rejection in HW 2nd ed. A:407, the semantic assignment found general acceptance; see DLL:33, HEG A-K:83, HED A, E, I:212, Starke 1990a:449, CLL:36, Melchert 1994a:63, 367, HHw:27, EDHIL:221, Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:209.

[E.R.]

The heteroclitic *-ttar-/-t(ta)n- stem was recognized only by Starke 1990a:448f., but has entered the handbook since (see under Meaning for references).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. *aši.