ḫattai(ya)-

The lexeme is found twice in the conjurations from a ritual for the mother and child (Tauriša tradition) and in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival (all NS).

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nom. pl. c.	ḫa-at-ta-in-zi	KBo 13.260 iii 9’	(CTH 766, NS)
nom./acc. pl. n.	ḫa-ad-da-ia	KUB 25.39 iv 12	(CTH 773, NS)
dat./loc. pl.	ḫa-at-ta-ia-an-za	KBo 13.260 ii 25	(CTH 766, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Already by its transparent word formation (a relational -i(ya)- adjective derived from ḫatta- ‘piercing, striking’) ḫattai(ya)- reveals its meaning as ‘related to piercing/striking’. Further evidence comes from the two contexts of attestation known for the word. In each, ḫattai(ya)- occurs together with its base noun in a figura etymologica. In the first one, the ritualist requests the gods to bestow on certain groups what is appropriate for them: ⁽²⁴⁾az-⸢zu⸣-wa-an-za-wa ḫu-id-da-an ⁽²⁵⁾⸢pí-ia⸣-an-du ḫa-at-ta-ia-an-za-wa ⁽²⁶⁾⸢ḫa-at⸣-ta pí-ia-an-du ⁽²⁷⁾ma-an-na-u-wa-an-za-pa ma-an-nu pí-ia-an-du “Let them give running to the swift, let them give piercing to those related to piercing, let them give fertility to the fertile” (KBo 13.260 ii 24-27). In the second one, the groups are supposed to eat what is like them (for the full citation, see under the lemma of ḫatta- ‘piercing, striking’).

The last attestation contains the nom./acc. pl. n. ḫaddaya in adverbial use, and it does not contribute anything of its own to the semantic interpretation presented above (Starke 1990a:392, 550, CLL:65, HHw:47).

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See under Meaning.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *ḫatt-.