/hah(h)attaiya-/, há-ha-ta-ia-
‘to be violent/destructive’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3591
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hah(h)attaiya-/, há-ha-ta-ia-
‘to be violent/destructive’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Karkamiš dating to the 10th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | /hah(h)attaiyatta/ | há-ha-ta-ia-ta | KARKAMIŠ A1a, §2 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this verb is tentative. While likely related to the word family around /hatta-/ ‘to demolish’ and its CLuw. cognates around ḫatta- ‘violent blow, harm’ (cf. CLL:63), the respective qualities of its word-medial consonants are somewhat unclear. It is most closely related to HLuw. /hah(h)atta-/ ‘to annihilate (?)’ and CLuw. ḫattai(ya)- ‘violent’ (see CLL:65).Outdated is the link with Hittite ḫandā(i)- ‘to marry’ as proposed by Neumann 1973a:251 and followed by Puhvel (HED Ḫ:106) and Tischler (HEG A-Ḫ:153).
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
With a single attestation in a largely fragmented context at KARKAMIŠ A1a, the meaning of this verb has proved difficult to pin down.Contra Hawkins 2000a:90 it cannot be the same verb as /hah(h)atta-/ because of a difference in transitivity. However, on the basis of its likely kinship with HLuw. /hah(h)atta-/ ‘to annihilate (?)’ and CLuw. ḫattai(ya)- ‘violent’ and its context of attestation, this verb can be assumed to denote some destructive intransitive (and unaccusative) action or state, and the reduplication implies its repetition or continuity, cf. Sasseville 2021a:37f.The presence of the enclitic subject pronoun /=as/, 3sg. nom. c., marks the verb as intransitive, see e.g. Melchert 2003b:204. KARKAMIŠ A1a, §2 runs: *a-wa/i-sa há-ha-ta-ia-ta, approx. /a=wa=as hahattayatta/, whose translation remains uncertain as ‘(…), (s)he/it was (repeatedly?) violent / destructive, (and Hattanima hacked away the statue of the storm-god Tarhunt of the town Ismerikka)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:88).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Clearly a verb, the derivational route of this word is partly opaque. It represents a reduplicated formation from the family around /hatta-/ ‘to demolish’, also found in the verb /hah(h)atta-/ ‘to annihilate (?)’, but appears to derive from an adjective in the manner of CLuw. ḫattai(ya)- ‘violent’. Sasseville 2021a:37f. tentatively suggests it belongs to the factitive verbs in /-a-(ti)/.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /*hatt-/.