/uttaTa(/i)-/, u-ta-ti(-)

This existence of this word is not secured, but if the interpretation posited below is correct, it would be attested once in an inscription from Tabal, dating to the second half of the 8^th century BCE.

[AH.B.]

dat./loc. sg.

/uttaTi/

u-ta-ti

BULGARMADEN, §7 (Tabal)

The attestation in BULGARMADEN, §7 is recognized against Hawkins 2000a:524, who sees the string 〈u-ta-ti-na-ha-a〉 as representing a single word, viz. a verb of unknown meaning. While this is certainly possible, the syntactic structure of the clause would suggest reading them as two words: the noun 〈u-ta-ti〉 and the verb 〈na-ha-a〉.

[AH.B.]

The suggested meaning is assigned very tentatively to the present lexeme (Yakubovich 2017e:s.v.), because its sole attestation occurs in a context that contains several other unknown words besides. In BULGARMADEN, §7, the relevant clause runs: “MÁRA/I”-i-sa-pa-wa/i (DEUS)CERVUS₃-ti-ia-sá-ti-i (BONUS)wa/i-sa₅+ra/i-ti-i á-mi-i DOMINUS-ni-i ˹(LEO)˺hwa/i-sa₅+ra/i-´ pa(+ra/i^?)-ti-i u-ta-ti na-ha-a, approx. /immaris(sa)=ba=wa Runtiyassadi wassaradi ammi nanni hwisara padatti uttatti nahha/, which may mean ‘By the goodness of (the god) Runtiya of the Open Country, I n.-ed the wild beasts at the foothill(?) (and) in the hill country(?) for my lord’. While the syntactic structure of the clause is reasonably clear, the same cannot be said for the two dat./loc. sg. forms, of which the present lexeme is one. Considering that both words likely denote locations, however, the assigned meaning is certainly within the realm of possibility, especially if the morphological structure (see discussion below) should prove correct. Further data are needed to test this hypothesis.

[AH.B.]

If the phonological and semantic analysis of the present lexeme is correct, its morphological structure would derive from the noun /watt(i)-/ ‘mountain’ with the denominal suffix /-aT(i)-/, probably resulting in a common gender noun.

[AH.B.]

For the tentative lemma head, see HLuw. /watt(i)-/.