walutašši(ya)-
‘(a vessel)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2843
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
walutaššiy(a)-
‘(a vessel)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is limited to NS copies of festival text (cult of Tešub and Ḫebat) and cult inventories.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | DUGwa-lu-ta-aš-ši-ia-[ | KUB 56.56 iv 13 | (CTH 529, NS) |
| ⸢DUG⸣wa-lu-ta-aš-ši-an-za | KUB 38.32 i 14 | (CTH 526, NS) | |
| ⸢DUG⸣wa-lu-ta-aš-ši-ia-an | KUB 27.15 ii 13’ | (CTH 698, NS) | |
| DUGwa-lu-ta-aš-ši-i[a-an] | KUB 27.13 i 29 | (CTH 698, NS) | |
| nom./acc. pl. | DUGwa-l[u-ta-aš-ši-…] | KpT 1.36 i 5 | (CTH 530, NS) |
| unclear | DUGwa-lu-ta!-aš-š[i-…] | KBo 2.7 rev. 5 | (CTH 526, NS) |
DUGwalutaššianza at KUB 38.32 i 14 is part of a list of direct objects. As a consequence, the form ending in -anza must be a Luwian neuter acc. sg. with secondary ending =ša/za.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, except for KBo 2.7 rev. 5, for which only the hand copy was checked. – The text at KBo 2.7 rev. 5 reads DUGwa-lu-ša-aš-ši-[…], but Carter 1962a:200 suggested plausibly an emendation changing -ša- to -ta-. – Cammarosano 2019a:52 restores not only the acc. pl. DUGwa-l[u-ta-aš-ši-uš] at KpT 1.36 i 5, but also the same form ibid. iii 12’’ ([DUGwa-lu-ta-a]š-ši-uš). The latter is far from assured, and the former, based on the restoration of the ending ibid. i 5, is equally insecure. – Restoration as DUGwa-lu-ta-aš-ši-ia-[an-za] at KUB 56.56 iv 13 suggested in Pecchioli Daddi & Baldi 2004a:498.
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1.1.4Meaning
The most valuable indication regarding the meaning comes from the determinative DUG for vessel names. It is used for beer and wine (see also HEG U-Z:274).
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1.1.5Stem
The neuter acc. sg. DUGwalutaššianza can be assigned to an a-, an an-, or an ant-stem. The first is perhaps most likely, since its derivation involves fewer and more commonly used suffixes and processes: walut(i)- → gen. adj. walut-ašša/i- → (subs.) → (adj.) walutašš-i(ya)- → (subs.), but see also Tischler (HEG U-Z:274) suggesting a stem in -ant- (thus also Cammarosano 2019a:64; Ünal 2007a:784 posits DUGwalutašši-/walušaššiya-).
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1.1.6Origin
Already Carter 1962a:200 argued that, on account of the formation with the Luwian suffix -ašša/i- and the existence of a potential base walut(i)- in Luwian, DUGwalutaššiy(a)- originates in Luwian. In contrast, Melchert (pers. comm.) regards the suffixation with -iya- as a Hittite process applied to Luwian walutašša/i-. This seems less likely in view of the genuinely Luwian form DUGwalutaššianza at KUB 38.32 i 14.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. walut(i)-.