ḫazziwitašša/i-
‘(man) of the rite’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3594
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫazziwitašša/i-
‘(man) of the rite’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs once in a NS cult inventory.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg.(!) | LÚ.MEŠḫa-az-zi-wi5-ta-aš-ši-iš | KUB 38.12 ii 3 | (CTH 527, NS) |
The form, which follows the numeral ‘19’, can be analyzed as either a nom. sg. with a collective meaning (thus DCL:s.v.) like LÚ.MEŠappanza ‘group of captives’, or a nom. pl. with the spelling °i-iš.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme clearly is a substantivized Luwian genitival adjective in -ašša/i- derived from the stem ḫazziwi(t)- ‘rite; cult supply’ (see Berman 1972a:95, Archi 1973a:25, HEG A-K:233, Neu 1986b:111f. n. 17, Starke 1990a:183, CLL:67, HED H:284, HHw:48, Ünal 2007a:207, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:547, Cammarosano 2018a:423f., 430). This implies a meaning ‘man of the rite’ matching that of the genitival expression LÚ ḫazziwiyaš (see under the lemma of 
ḫazziwi(t)- n. ‘rite, cult supply’ for references). In its sole occurrence, it is used as the hypernym for the LÚsanga, the MUNUSama.dingirLIM and the katra- women (Archi 1973a:25, Starke 1990a:183).
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1.1.5Stem
See under Meaning.Outdated Tischler 1982b:218, who suggests a compound with daššu- ‘strong’.
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1.1.6Origin
On the formation with the Luwian suffix -ašša/i-, see under Meaning (with references). Together with the Luwian base word, it points to a Luwian origin, or at least to Luwian influence, if one is not inclined to accept the Luwian etymology of the base word.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *ḫatt-.