talupp(i)-
‘clod, lump’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3351
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
talupp(i)-
‘clod, lump’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations of this lexeme are found in the Puriyanni ritual and rituals from the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards). For a detailed discussion of the borrowing of talupp(i)- into Greek (τολύπη ‘ball of spun wool, ball wool to be spun; type of globular cake’), see Joseph 1982a, Melchert 1998d, and Bianconi 2020a:139 n. 6.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | ta-lu-up-pí-iš | KUB 35.21 rev. 17’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| KUB 35.58 ii 5’ | (CTH 759, NS) | ||
| ta-lu-up-p[í-iš] | KUB 35.54 ii 8’ | (CTH 758, MS) | |
| ta-lu-u[p-pí-iš] | KUB 35.55, 5’ | (CTH 758, NS) | |
| ⸢ta⸣-lu-up-pí-i[š] | KUB 32.11 obv. 1’ | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| acc. sg. | [ta-lu-u]p-pí-in | KUB 35.21 obv. 34’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| ta-lu-up-pí-⸢in⸣ | KUB 35.28 i 11’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| [t]a-lu-up-pí-in | KUB 35.31 ii 9’ | (CTH 759, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
While Friedrich 1955a:46 (HW:366, followed by Kammenhuber 1986a:97f.) translated the correspondent Hittite noun taluppi- still with ‘shred of dough’ (“Teigfetzen”), it became clear later that the object is a lump made of dough, mud, or earth (DLL:89, CLL:203, Melchert 1998d:47f., HEG T:66, HHw:162, Laroche 1968a:779 in spite of the erroneous reading; see also Ünal 2007a:674, Sasseville 2020b:114f.). The same meaning has been assumed for CLuw. talupp(i)-, which became obvious not only by the identical phonological shape, but also from the use of the Hittite and the Luwian matching terms in the same context (first noticed by Friedrich 1955a:46; with unnecessary skepticism Otten 1953a:110): (15’)[nu-za MUNUSšu.gi pár-ku-in iš-na]-⸢a⸣-aš ⸢ta-lu-up⸣-pí-in da-a-i ... (16’)... nu MUNUSšu.gi te-ez-zi (17’)[za-ú-i-na-aš ú-i-ši-ta ḫa-l]a-a-li-iš ⸢ta⸣-lu-up-pí-i[š] “[The Old Woman] takes a [pure] lump of [dough] ... The Old Woman says: [‘Here it has appeared, the pu]re lump.’” (KUB 32.21 rev. 15’-17’; cf. Starke 1985b:89).
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1.1.5Derivatives
1.2 Luwian in Hittite transmission
talupp(i)-
‘clod, lump’1.2.1Transmission
The term occurs in rituals from the Kuwattalla tradition and others that are strongly connected with Luwian traditions (from MS onwards).
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1.2.2Forms
| nom. sg. | [t]a-lu-up-pí-iš | KBo 61.28, 5’ | (CTH 470, NS) |
| acc. sg. | ta-lu-up-pí-in | KUB 35.29 i 9’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
| ta-lu-up-⸢pí-in⸣ | KUB 35.28 i 11’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| ta-lu-up-pí-in | KBo 24.45 obv. 18’, obv. 20’ | (CTH 479, NS) | |
| ta-lu-up-pí-in | KBo 12.96 i 3’ | (CTH 433, NS) | |
| ta-lu-up-pí-in-n(=) | KBo 12.96 i 6’ | (CTH 433, NS) | |
| [t]a-lu-up-pí-in | KBo 12.96 i 17’ | (CTH 433, NS) | |
| [ta-lu-up-p]í-in | Bo 9196, 6’ | (CTH 479, NS) | |
| ⸢ta-lu-up⸣-pí-in | KUB 35.21 rev. 15’ | (CTH 762, MS?) | |
| ⸢ta-lu-up⸣-pí-in | KUB 35.21 rev. 17’ | (CTH 762, MS) | |
| [ta-lu-up-p]í-in | KUB 35.21 rev. 25’ | (CTH 762, MS) | |
| [ta-lu-up-pí-]in | KUB 35.21 obv. 14 | (CTH 762, MS) | |
| ta-l[u-up-pí-in] | KBo 22.143 i 1 | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| [t]a-lu-up-pí-in | KUB 35.31 ii 9’ | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| da-a-lu-up-pa-an | KUB 24.9 iii 7’ | (CTH 402, NS) | |
| ⸢ta-lu-up-pa⸣-an | KBo 52.26 iii 8’ | (CTH 402, NS) | |
| acc. pl. | ta-lu-pu-š(=) | KBo 17.36 ii 24’ | (CTH 655, OS) |
| unknown | ⸢ta⸣-lu-x[ | KBo 17.36 ii 24’ | (CTH 655, OS) |
| ta-l[u- | KBo 20.22 ii 4’ | (CTH 655, OS) | |
| ta-lu-up-p[í- | Bo 8843, i 6’ | (CTH 470, NS) | |
| t]a-lu-pí-i[a? | IBoT 4.307, 4’ | (CTH 670, NS) |
The forms are collected from the Hethitologie-Archiv Mainz. – The sequence ta-lu-pu-ša-an, analyzed as the acc. pl. of an a-stem talupuša- by Neu 1983a:187, instead represents an acc. pl. in -uš suffixed with the local particle -šan ‘upon’. Although it is not the case ibid. iii 8’, the syntagma ḫaššā/ī peššiye/a- ‘to throw onto the hearth’ is frequently used with local particles elsewhere (KBo 46.138 obv. 5’f., Bo 4907 iv 11’, KUB 45.47 ii 16 etc.). – Assignment of da-a-lu-up-pa-an at KUB 24.9 iii 7’ to the present lemma following HEG T:66 and Melchert 1998a:47.
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1.2.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, except for the Bo-texts cited here after an old transliteration.
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1.2.4Meaning
For the meaning, see under CLuw. talupp(i)- above.
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1.2.5Stem
The switch between i- and a-stem reflects the abstraction from the two stems alternating by the Luwian i-mutation in CLuw. talupp(i)- (Melchert 1998d:47).
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1.2.6Origin
The stem alternation in Hittite, i.e. -a- (since OH) and -i- (since MH) with the derived verb taluppā(i)-(mi) (see the derivative taluppant-) deleting the -i- vowel of its base, as well as the existence of talupp(i)- in Cuneiform Luwian transmission point to a Luwian origin (DLL:89, CLL:203, Melchert 2005a:449; undecided Friedrich 1955a:46).
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