piddanna
‘to run, flee (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3254
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
piddanna
‘to run, flee (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in mythological passage pertaining to the bull in the sky, who brings thunder and rain.
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1.1.2Forms
| 2sg. impv. act. or inf. (?) | píd-da-an-na | KUB 48.69, 2 | (CTH 754, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
The verb piddanna refers to an action done by the bull in the sky. From a comparative perspective, if we adduce as cognate Hitt. pittāi-/-i(ya)-(ḫi) ‘to run, flee’ EDHIL:655-658 has pattāi-/-i(ya)-(ḫi) with a different root vocalism., we obtain a suitable sense for the phrase, i.e. “Bull! Run on top of the sky!”.
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1.1.5Stem
The verbal form piddanna can be taken either as an imperfective formation with a suffix corresponding to Hitt. -anna-/-i(ya)-(ḫi), although this would be the first attestation of this suffix in Palaic, or as an infinitive formation comparable to the Hittite one in -anna (originally the locative singular of a verbal abstract noun in -ātar-/-n-). More evidence is needed.
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