tiwataniya-

The lexeme is found in NS fragments of oracle reports and a ritual.

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gen. sg.	ti-wa-ta-ni-ia-aš	KBo 41.210 obv. 12’	(CTH 581, NS)
dat./loc. sg.	[ti-wa-t]a-ni-ia	KUB 50.6 iii 35	(CTH 569, NS)
abl. (Hitt.)	[ti-wa]-ta-ni-ia-za	KUB 22.35 iii 2’	(CTH 569, NS)
unknown	ti-wa-d[a-ni-ia-aš]	KBo 57.70, 5’	(CTH 470, NS)

Attestations follow DCL:s.v.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Judging by its stem formation, i.e. the suffixation with -iya- for common gender abstracts, and its base *tiwadani-^(ti) ‘to swear, curse’ (seen in the Hittite borrowing tiwataniye/a-^(mi) ‘to swear, curse’), the lexeme can hardly mean anything other than ‘swearing, cursing’, or concretized ‘oath, curse’ (following Sasseville 2020c:278 and Sasseville 2021a:32, 129, DCL:s.v.; see also Ünal 2007a:722: ‘a kind of malady, evilness; curse’). Contextual support comes from the collocation with arraḫḫaniyaš ‘ranting, cursing’ at KBo 41.210 obv. 12’ (cited also in HEG T:399).

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1. tiwataniya-^(ti)

In addition to the use of the gloss wedges, the integration into a Luwian derivational chain (which includes the base verb tiwatani-^(ti) and the derived verb tiwataniya-^(ti), see under Meaning) betrays the Luwian origin of tiwataniya- (HEG T:399, Sasseville 2020c:278 and Sasseville 2021a:32, 129, DCL:s.v.).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *tiw-.