*tídont(i)-

A single attestation is known of this word. It is found in the Hittite passage of a MS fragment belonging to the Kuwattalla tradition.

[E.R.]

acc. sg. c. or gen. sg.

ti-i-ta-an-⸢ta⸣-[an/aš]

KBo 29.3 i 6

(CTH 761, MS)

For ti-ta-an-za at KBo 53.29, 6’ as mentioned in HEG T:384, Ünal 2007a:720, and EDHIL:875f., see under the lemma of tītan- ‘(female) breast, teat’ in Hittite transmission.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The word appears in a list of offerings: ⁽⁵⁾... šà-b]a 2 udu^ḪI.A a-ni-u-ra-aš babbar ge₆-ia ⁽⁶⁾[2 udu^ḪI.A ik-ku-na-at-ta-aš 1] udu šar-la-at-ta-aš 1 udu.síg+munus ti-i-ta-an-⸢ta⸣-[aš] “... among th]em two sheep of the ritual (that are) white and black, [two sheep of the liver offering, one] sheep praise offering, one ewe of the suckling (offering)” (thus CHD Š:276; see also Starke 1985b:99, different HEG T:344). The restoration and translation presented in CHD (followed in Ünal 2007a:720) and cited here lead to an analysis of tītant- as a lexicalized participle with “active” diathesis (‘sucking, suckling’) in elliptic use for the offering, whereas the reading in HEG, ti-i-ta-an-⸢ta⸣-[an], assumes a participle used as an adjectival attribute of udu.síg+munus, hence ‘lactating ewe’ (thus the semantics suggested in Starke 1990a:229 in contradiction with his own reading, followed by Melchert pers. comm.). The name of the offering, presumably in the genitive, must then have followed in the lacuna in the beginning of the next line (line 7).

While Kloekhorst (in EDHIL:875f.) sees no contextual evidence to connect the word with Luwian tītan- ‘(female) breast, teat’, the explicit mention of the female sex of the sheep is reason enough to follow Tischler’s suggestion (in HEG T:344). However, because the ending of tītant(i)- is broken off and the case form cannot be determined, the exact meaning (‘sucking, suckling’ or lactating’) must remain open.

[E.R.]

The lexicalized participle in -ant- (Starke 1990a:288) belongs to the i-mutated stems in Luwian. In Hittite transmission, an interpretatio hethitica could trigger a Hittite -ant- stem as seen in the attested form; contra Starke 1990a:288 (and Starke 1995a:43 n. 102), who seems to expect a thematization with -a- throughout.

In terms of stem formation, alternatively a Luwian possessive -nt(i)- derivative ‘possessing teats’ would be possible, but to describe a ewe as possessing teats is quite redundant. Therefore, this option is discarded here.

[E.R.]

The occurrence of tītant- in a fragment of the Kuwattalla tradition is conducive to assuming a borrowing from Luwian. Like tīta(n)-, also tītant- reveals its Luwian origin only by its -ī- vowel in the first syllable, but this is conclusive.

Even if a Hittite *tētant- with the same meaning had been Luwianized, it would amount to a Luwian influence on the same lexeme.

[E.R.]

This lexeme is found in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

According to Schürr 2005a:152, tidñta corresponds to Hitt. tītant- ‘breast-feeding (attribute to UDU.U₈ ‘ewe’), which Starke 1990a:229 regards as a Luwianism accepted here, see tītant(i)-). Schürr 2005a:152 also connects it to Lycian A tideime/i- ‘son’ < ‘breast-fed’, which he interprets as the participle of a non-attested verb *tid(e)i-^(di).

In its context, the word tidñta is, besides mñnusama ‘fertile’, an attribute to the acc. pl. n. noun lajata ‘?’. The semantics of tidñta should be in accordance with mñnusama. The meaning ‘nourishing’ < ‘breast-feeding, having breasts’ given here is a semantic widening and fits semantically:

[z^?]ata ãpiti[ a]tli lijanuwa kuli=ke mruwa{:}si tidñta xbade sebe purese mñnusama lajata

‘He imposes(?) for [ hi]mself the fertile nourishing(?) lajata as nymphaean payments(?) both in the wasteland for the mruwasa-deity and in the purese river-valleys.’

Furthermore, Schürr 2005a:152 ponders the meaning ‘woman’ because of the adjective lijanuwa ‘pertaining to the nymphs’, which is not convincing. Shevoroshkin 2014a:248 correctly connects tidñta with Hitt. and CLuv. tītan- n. ‘breast, teat’ but translates ‘drinking vessel’ and in Shevoroshkin 2012a:473 ‘libation’. The translation by Shevoroshkin 2002a:216, viz. ‘fight(s), raid(s)’, is unmotivated. The same counts for the interpretation as a numeral by Neumann 1961a:52.

[D.S.]

tidñta is an nt-stem adjective, which could be the participle of the non-attested verb *tide- ‘suckle’ or a derivative from a noun *tide- (corresponding to CLuw. tīdan- n. ← *tīda- n.).

[D.S.]

This lemma was written together with the intern Jonas Döll.