kupiyatalla/i-
‘plotter, conspirator’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3218
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
kupiyatalla/i-
1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the lexeme occurs in an edict of Ḫattušili III.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. | ku-pí-ia-ta-al-li-uš |
KUB 21.29 ii 55’ | (CTH 89, NS) |
The acc. pl. ending attached to the stem is Hittite.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Although the word occurs in fragmentary context, its meaning is clear owing to its transparent derivational morphology: kupiyatalla/i- derives from kupiyat(i)- ‘plot, scheme’ with the adjectival suffix -alla/i- and means ‘related to plots’, and underwent substantivization to ‘plotter, conspirator’; cf. HW:117, 321, and 425, DLL:57, van Brock 1962a:105, Kronasser 1966a:176, Otten & Kühne 1971a:38f. (still positing the suffix as -talli-), HEG A-K:639, CLL:111, HED K:256, HHw:84f., Ünal 2007a:366).
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1.1.5Stem
Originally a Luwian stem in -alla/i-, the noun was transferred to the Hittite class in -i-, as can be frequently observed in i-mutated stems, especially those with l-suffixes (Rieken 1994a:49). For the derivation from kupiyat(i)- ‘plot, scheme’, see under Meaning.
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1.1.6Origin
See under the lemma of kup- ‘to plot, scheme’.
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