tititi(ya)-

The sole attestation of the putative lexeme occurs in a votive text.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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No translation is offered in HHw:s.v. and Ünal 2007a:721. The two semantic interpretations proposed elsewhere depend entirely on the associations of tititin with other lexemes better understood. de Roos 2007a:270f. supposes that the word is identical with Hitt. tittitta- ‘nose’ and translates it accordingly. In contrast, Starke 1990a:194 assumes that it is a relational adjective derived from CLuw. tītī(t)- ‘pupil (of the eye)’, on account of the singleton spellings on the one hand, and the i-mutation not expected for the neuter noun on the other hand. Although not confirmed by the limited contextual evidence (HEG T:395), the latter analysis is coherent and thus adopted here.

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If the analysis accepted under Meaning is correct, the lexeme is a relational adjective derived with the suffix -i(ya)-.

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The Luwian provenance of the word as assumed by Starke 1990a:194 and accepted in HEG T:394 is indicated by the Cuneiform Luwian base, the i-mutation, and the use of gloss-wedges.

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For the derivational base see CLuw. tītī(t)-.