taluppant-

The lexeme occurs in NS manuscripts of ritual and festival texts.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Since Friedrich 1955a:46 n. 11, it is common sense that the participle taluppant- means ‘plaited’ (see HW:366, HEG T:65). More recently, Melchert 1998d:47f. proposed that it is derived from Luw. talupp(i)- (and a borrowed a-stem taluppa-) and connected both with the Hittite verb tarupp- ‘to gather’. The phonological discrepancy between taluppant- and tarupp- is explained by a “sporadic -r-/-l- alternation” (ibid. 50 and Melchert 1994a:171; but slightly skeptical EDHIL:852).

However, the parallelism between the taluppant- and tarupp- contexts is not as conclusive as it would seem. At KBo 11.11 iii 8’, 1 ^TÚGkureššar taluppan is translated as “one plaited headscarf” by Melchert 1998a:48, but can equally well be understood as “one headscarf (in a state of being) balled (together)”, which would explain the postposed position of the participle, while “one headscarf (in a state of being) plaited” does not make sense. For KUB 2.6 iv 6-8 ⁽⁶⁾nu=za išḫuzzin ⁽⁷⁾síg babbar síg sa₅ anda ⁽⁸⁾taluppandan dāi, “he takes for himself a belt of white wool (and) red wool (in a state of being) balled together” conforms with the lack of the abl./instr. marker ištu better than Melchert’s “belt plaited with white and red wool.” Accordingly, there is no cogent reason to lump tarupp- and *talupp- together.

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Regarding the stem formation of the verb underlying the participle taluppant-, two analyses are possible. Either the noun talupp(i)- provides the base for a denominative verb taluppā(i)-^(mi), or a thematized talupp(i)- derives from an athematic verb talupp- (option preferred by Melchert 1998d:48; the connection had been already recognized in HW:366).

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Based on the Luwian origin of talupp(i)-, the cognate verb is likewise regarded as Luwian.

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