muwatallatar/n-
‘mightiness, feistiness’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 3531
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
muwatallatar/n-
‘mightiness, feistiness’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of muwatallatar comes from a trilingual lexical list.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | mu-wa-tal-la-tar | KBo 13.2 rev. 9’ | (CTH 309, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Although the Sumerian and Akkadian columns of the lexical list are broken off (but see Cohen 2012a:4 for a restoration), the analysis of the stem formation permits a clear semantic interpretation, i.e. as an abstract noun derived from muwattalla/i- ‘mighty, related to feistiness’, yielding ‘mightiness, feistiness’ (similar HED M:198 ‘mightiness’).
With a slightly different starting point, viz. muwattalla/i- ‘awe-inspiring(?), terrifying(?)’, CHD L-N:317 (followed in HEG L-N:244, Ünal 2007a:463, EDHIL:589) translates ‘ability to inspire awe(?), Cohen 2012a:4 ‘terrifying force’, but Scheucher 2012a:699: ‘virility’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
See under Meaning.
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1.1.6Origin
For the Luwian origin of the base word muwattalla/i-, see under Lemma. The Hittite heteroclitic suffix -ātar/-ann- possesses the same function as Luw. -aḫi(t)-, so that the formation probably represents a calque of muwattalaḫi(t)- ‘mightiness, feistiness’ (HHw:109).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. mūwa-(i).