pittaur(i)-
‘the Great of Allotments’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3265
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
pittaur(i)-
‘the Great of Allotments’1.1.1Transmission
A single NS text provides all ten attestations of the lexeme.
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | pí-it-ta-ú-ri-ia-aš | KUB 8.75 ii 66, iii 20, iv 17 | (CTH 239, NS) |
| pí-i[t-ta-ú-ri-ia-aš] | KUB 8.75 i 50 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| p[í-it-t]a-ú-ri-ia-aš | KUB 8.75 iii 1 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| pí-⸢it-ta⸣-ú-ri-ia-aš | KUB 8.75 iv 63 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| pí-it-⸢ta⸣-ú-ri-ia-aš | KUB 8.75 iii 8, iv 30 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| KUB 42.7 + KUB 8.75 iii 48 | (CTH 239, NS) | ||
| pí-it-ta-ú-ri!-ia-aš | KUB 8.75 i 57’ | (CTH 239, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, with the exception of the latter half of the word at KUB 8.75 iii 8 and iii 20. – At KUB 8.75 i 57’, the text shows -te- instead of expected -ri- as elsewhere on the tablet.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Under Meaning, the interpretation as a compound with ura/i- is supported. As a consequence, one has to accept that the diphthong that emerges from the composition of pitta- ending in -a- and ura/i- with initial 〈u-〉 [o-] is spelled 〈°a-ú-〉 [-au-] and the distinction between [u] and [o] is neutralized.
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1.1.4Meaning
Since Meriggi 1962a:105, it is generally accepted that pittaur(i)- is not part of a name, but a title or perhaps a profession, in spite of the lack of the determinative LÚ (cf. CHD P:361, HW:452, Rieken 1999a:254, HEG P:601, Puhvel 1979a:214, HED P:106f., Ünal 2007a:546f., EDHIL:677, HHw:148). Puhvel 1979a:214 (HED P:106f.) accepted Meriggi’s idea that the second member of the compound is auri- ‘frontier post’, but this can now be discarded, because the term for the functionary is the derived stem LÚauriyala- or LÚauriyatalla- (Rieken 1999a:254 n. 1201). The other scholars opted for ura/i- ‘great’, which is much more appropriate for a title (cf. Brosch 2008a:49). Thus, pittaur(i)- means ‘the Great of Allotments’.Implausible HEG P:601: “(Mann der) Groß-Zuteilung” with the second member determining the first member; cf. Brosch 2008a:49.
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1.1.5Stem
In principle, the gen. sg. in -iyaš could belong to a stem in -iya-, but the transfer from a Luwian mutating stem to a Hittite i-stem is a regular process in the course of the adaptation of the loan word, and it permits to assign the underlying Luwian stem to the ubiquitous class of the mutating a/i-stems (corresponding to Luw. ura/i- in Hittite transmission, see under Lemma).
According to the preceding section (with references), pitta-uri- is a compound with pitta, a collective in -a, as its first member. In addition to the present lemma, a stem LÚpiddur(i)- exists, probably following a different pattern of composition (see under Lemma).
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1.1.6Origin
The compound with the Luwian lexeme ura/i- with an i-stem ending in Hittite speaks for a Luwian origin (see Yakubovich 2017a:41-45 for the type).
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For the lemma head, see CLuw. ura/i-.
arramma/i-