tapaššiye/a-^(mi)

The sole attestation of the verb comes from a MS letter.

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Checked against the handcopy of the edition.

[E.R.]

The verb occurs in the following context: ^(8)m.GIŠgidru-dingir^LIM-in ta-pa-aš-ši-ie-et ku-it-ki ⁽⁹⁾nu ^URUḫa-at-tu-ši pé-en-ni-iš “Ḫattušili became ill and drove off to Ḫattuša (for ‘medical’ treatment)” (modified from Hoffner 2009a:243). The meanings proposed hinge on the translation of the base noun tapašša- thought to mean ‘blaze, fever’, hence ‘to inflame, to excite’ (Güterbock 1943b:190f. (non vidi) cited in HW:211, Rost 1956a:346, 348, HEG T:123, HHw:165, Ünal 2007a:686, Marizza 2009a:78) and/or ‘to get a fever’ (Ünal 2007a:686, Hoffner 2009a:243). Only Hoffner 2009a:243 recognized the syntactic construction with the experiencer expressed as the accusative object of an impersonal verb of illness (Hoffner & Melchert 2008a:249f.), which conforms to the assumption that tapaššiye/a- relates to illness. However, as stated under the lemma of tapašša-, a meaning more general that ‘fever, headache’ can be deemed likely and, consequently, a general term for ‘to make ill’ is to be preferred over ‘to cause a fever’.

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The spelling of the ending °i-i-e-et attributes the verb to the class of stems in -iye/a-^(mi), more specifically the denominative verbs as shown by the complex base noun tapašša-. Since an inner-Luwian derivation from a non-mutating a-stem would not delete the stem-final -a-, the verb must have been formed within Hittite from the Hittite adaptation of the Luwian noun, viz. thematic tapašša- c.

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As pointed out under Stem, tapaššiye/a-^(mi) ‘to make ill’ represents a hybrid formation, being a Hittite derivative of an adapted Luwian base.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. tāpa/i-.