/nahhutt(i)-/, na-hu-ti-
‘terror (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3114
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/nahhutt(i)-/, na-hu-ti-
‘terror (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Karkamiš, dating to the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /nahhuttin/ | na-hu-ti-na | KARKAMIŠ A5a, §6 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word rests on its transparent spelling in conjunction with its cognates, see lemma head.
While it is not in doubt that the present word belongs to the word family around /nahh(i)-/ ‘fear’, it should be noted that it alone lacks the determinative COR (sign *341, previously read VAS), which commonly appears with words denoting mental states or the body parts associated with these (van den Hout 2002a:176, who also suggests the reading COR on p. 182).
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Hawkins 2000a:183, 547 connects the word to the similar looking form /nahhutti(ya)-/ ‘terrified (?)’ in ASSUR letter e, §10 without assigning any meaning, but pointing towards the etymological connection with CLuw. 
naḫḫūwa-(i) ‘there is a concern (impers.)’. Yakubovich 2017e:s.v. proposed a meaning ‘curse’, but the contexts do not force such a meaning, which is why a less specific meaning closer to that of its cognates including HLuw. /nahh(i)-/ ‘fear’ is given preference here.
KARKAMIŠ A5a, §6: wa/i-mu-u-i [x]-〈CRUX〉-mi-i na-hu-ti-na ARHA pu-˹tá˺, approx. /wa=mu …-mi nahuttin ahha punta/, which may mean ‘They (scil. the author’s parents) held back terror (?) for me as/in …’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:182f., Sasseville 2021a:303 and the HLuw. verb /pu-(di)/ ‘to lift, to hold’).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The noun is built from the u-stem that has also served as a basis for naḫḫūwa-(i) (cf. Sasseville 2021a:372f. and CLL:153). The u-suffix is not present in its cognates HLuw. /nahh(i)-/ and Hittite nāḫ-/naḫḫ-(ḫi), and its function is not clear, cf. already Weitenberg 1984a:186.
Outdated is any connection with Hittite nakki- (see e.g. HED N:16f.), which was already refuted by Oettinger 1978a:79 n. 21, Weitenberg 1984a:445 n. 471-473 and others.
[AH.B.]
1.1.6Derivatives
For the lemma head see HLuw. */nahh(uw)a-(i)/.