allatima-

The sole attestation of the word is found in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.

al-la-ti-ma

KUB 35.139 iv 8

(CTH 773, MS)

For the morphological interpretation of al-la-ti-ma(-)an-⸢ta⸣-[an] as allatima=antan, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

The lexeme is not listed in DLL:25 and remained untranslated in CLL:9 (s.v. āllatimanta) and HHw:13. In analogy to the analysis of tūwallanatima=anta[n] from the preceding song incipit (ibid. iv 6; see tūwallanatima-), al-la-ti-ma(-)an-⸢ta⸣-[an] is segmented as āllatima=anta[n], which implies the combination of a dat./loc. sg. in -a of a noun in -ima- (see under Stem) and an enclitic local particle antan ‘in’. Accordingly, the translation of the line reads “far away, in the area of the allat(i)-.” Drawing further on the parallelism of the two incipits both beginning with tuwā ‘far away’, one may venture to suggest that allatima- possesses a meaning ‘area in a distance, distant area (?)’ similar to that of tūwallanatima-. This interpretation finds support in the possible etymological relationship with the gloss wedge word allallā- ‘enemy country’, derived from the root al- ‘other, distant, foreign’ (see CLuw. āla/i-). The word family includes several lexemes, but allallā- is of special importance for the present lemma and the connection, because it features a geminate -ll- as is the case in allatima-. If, then, allatima- belongs to the root al-, the suggested meaning ‘area in a distance, distant area (?)’ represents at least a plausible working hypothesis.

[E.R.]

Starting from a stem alla(/i)- ‘distant (?)’, an abstract noun allat(i)- ‘distance.’ (possibly attested at KUB 35.104, 12’) could be derived, which was finally suffixed with -ima- (for the suffix -ima-, see under CLuw. altannima-) to form a noun with the suggested meaning ‘distant area (?)’.

[E.R.]