/nahhutti(ya)-/, (COR)na-hu-ti-
‘terrrified (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3115
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/nahhutti(ya)-/, (COR)na-hu-ti-
‘terrified (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is only attested in a single letter found at Assur (with a possible origin from the region of Karkamiš), dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. c. | /nahhuttinzi/ | (COR)na-hu-ti-zi | ASSUR letter e, §10 |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of the word rests on both its transparent spelling and its cognates, first and foremost /nahhutt(i)-/ ‘terror (?)’, its derivational base, but also 
naḫḫūwa-(i) and Hittite nāḫ-/naḫḫ-(ḫi), cf. Weitenberg 1984a:186.
The present word shares with other members of the word family around /nahh(i)-/ ‘fear’, albeit not with its base word /nahhutt(i)-/ ‘terror (?)’, the use of the logographic 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
The meaning was first tentatively hinted at by Hawkins 2000a:547 on comparative grounds, noting that the present lexeme was probably the adjective instead of the noun (see Hawkins 2000a:183). Still, he refrained from applying a suitable translation, because most of the context of attestation was unclear at that point, a situation that has been partly remedied since then. In ASSUR letter e, §10, the clause runs: (COR)na-hu-ti-zi-wa/i-mu za-zi INFANS-ni-zi kwa/i-i (“*460”)á-sa-ta-ri+i (“COR”)ta-wa/i-sà-ta-ti-ha su-ti-ri+i-ti ha+ra/i-ta-ti-ha PRAE-na ARHA-a (MORI)wa/i-wa/i-ri+i-ta-ti, approx. /nahhuttinzi=wa=mu zanzi niwaranninzi kwi astadi tawassattadi=ha suTiridi harattadi=ha parran ahha wawalintari/, probably meaning ‘All the while these terrified(?) children will waste away on me from hunger(?) and the evil eye, from avarice(?) and offense’.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Derivatives
The word is an adjective in /-i(ya)-/, deriving from the noun /nahhutt(i)-/ ‘terror (?)’, for further details see there.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. */nahh(uw)a-(i)/.