muttiya-

The lexeme occurs only once, in the birth ritual of ^fPittei.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, but no photograph of the right edge of the table is available.

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The context runs as follows: ⁽⁵⁾... nu-kán a-aš-ki-uš mu-ut-ti-ia-an-za [     ] ⸢^MUNUSki.sikil⸣ ⁽⁶⁾erasure (KUB 44.4 rev. 5). The particle =kan demands a verb in the lacuna, which according to the handcopy and the collation in CHD L-N:337, contained two signs at most. Under these conditions, both the morphological analysis and the semantic interpretation of muttiyanza cannot come to a satisfactory conclusion. Beckman 1983a:177f. understands -uš in āškiuš as displaced anaphoric pronoun and translates “and them, the muttiya, in the gate ...” His interpretation is morphosyntactically impossible and superseded by Starke’s (Starke 1990a:544f., followed in Dardano 2010a:76), who is reading the last signs as ^MUNUSki.sikil ‘young woman’ (coll., CHD L-N:337). He analyses muttiyanza as the acc. pl. of mu(wa)tti- and proposes that āška- ‘gate’ refers to the cervix uteri: “[Es mobilisierte^?] die zum Tor gehörigen Widerstandskräfte, und zwar die junge Frau.” Giorgieri 2004a:410 (based on CLL:152) criticizes the interpretation of āškiuš as an adjective and that of muttiyanza as a substantival acc. pl., expecting *muttinz(a) with i-mutation. Instead, he seems to think of a Hittite ending /-s/ attached to *muttiyant-: “und die Tore/Türen^? (Akk.^?) der/die/das muttiyanz (Nom.^?) [...] die junge Frau [...]”. Differently, Bachvarova 2013a:139 translates muttiyanza as a voc. sg.: “[m]ighty one, s/he ... the gates [      ] the girl.”

Contra Melchert’s and Giorgieri’s argument that muttiyanza cannot be a noun since i-mutation would be expected, the word can represent a common gender abstract noun in -iya- ‘force, power’. In this case, the form can be a dat./loc. or acc. pl. and two translations seem possible: “she [       -ed] the gates for the forces, the young woman” or “she [       -ed] the forces of the gate, the young woman” (the latter following Starke’s plausible understanding of the passage).

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According to the analysis presented under Meaning, the stem is an abstract noun muttiya- c. deriving from an adjective mutti(ya)-.

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On account of the gloss wedges, the Luwian derivational base, and the Luwianized context, it is generally assumed that the word originates from Luwian (see the references cited under Meaning, and HEG L-N:237, HED M:199, HHw:109, van den Hout 2006a:247, EDHIL:589).

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For the lemma head, see CLuw. mūwa-⁽ⁱ⁾.