tiwatani-^(ti)

The forms of tiwatani-^(ti) with Luwian verbal endings are found in two texts that feature also many other Luwianisms (MH ritual Zuwi and one from the Tauriša tradition) as well as a protocol of a law suit and an oracle report of late composition date.

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3sg. pres. act.	ti-wa-da-ni-it-ti	VBoT 111 iii 6	(CTH 412, NS)
3pl. pres. act.	ti-wa-da-ni-in-ti	KBo 12.89 ii! 9	(CTH 765, MS)
1sg. pret. act.	ti-wa-ta-ni-iḫ-ḫa	KUB 18.3 rev. 24	(CTH 579, NS)
3sg. pret. act.	⸢ti⸣-wa-ta-ni-it-ta	KBo 13.74, 9’	(CTH 297, NS)

The reading ti-wa-ta-ni-iḫ-ḫa with -iḫ- at KUB 18.3 rev. 24 is preferred here over the alternative ti-wa-ta-ni-aḫ-ḫa on account of the spelling without glide, which would be unusual in a NS manuscript, especially before the vocalically ambiguous AḪ sign (aḫ, eḫ, iḫ, uḫ); contra CLL:230, Yoshida 2012a:346 n. 7; cf. also Sasseville 2021a:151 n. 30.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, except for VBoT 111 iii 6.

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For the semantics of the verb, see under the lemma tiwataniya-^(ti).

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The attested forms with Luwian endings belong to a stem with the suffix -i-^(ti), also transferred to the -iye/a-^(mi) class in Hittite (see under tiwataniye/a-^(mi)). The assigned stem class accords well with that of other verbs in -ani-^(ti), a suffix that occurs in at least one verb that denotes another aggressive speech act, viz. āraḫḫani-^(ti) ‘to rant, curse’ (Rieken 2017e:245f., building on Rosenkranz 1952a:87f., Otten 1953a: 95, Starke 1990a: 237, Oettinger 1979a: 493f.), but the suffix also competes with -aniya-^(ti) found in, e.g., tiwataniya-^(ti) ‘to swear, curse’ and ḫirutaniya-^(ti) ‘to perjure, curse’ (see under Lemmata).

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1. tiwataniya-

2. tiwataniya-^(ti)

The Luwian origin of the verb becomes obvious from both the use of the gloss wedges and the Luwian components of the stem, viz. the Luwian name of the Sun-god ^DTiwat- and the stem formation in -ani-^(ti).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *tiw-.