ḫattari-(ti)
‘to treat with the ḫattara- tool’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3599
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫattari-(ti)
‘to treat with the ḫattara- tool’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations occur in two parallel passages of the Puriyanni ritual.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. | ḫa-at-ta-ri-[it-ta] | KUB 35.52, 10’ | (CTH 758, NS) |
| ḫa-at-t[a-r]i-it-ta | KUB 35.54 ii 33’ | (CTH 758, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Contrary to the noun GIŠḫattara, the verb ḫattari-(ti) is not marked with a determinative (Otten 1953a:72).
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1.1.4Meaning
A semantic and derivational relationship between GIŠḫattara- and the verb ḫattari-(ti) is unambiguously revealed by their co-occurrence in a figura etymologica at KUB 35.54 ii 33’: a-ta be-el sískur GIŠḫa-at-ta-ra-a-ti ḫa-at-t[a-r]i-it-ta “And the ritual patron treated them (scil. the seeds) with the ḫattara- tool.” The purpose of the action is to destroy the seeds so that they would no longer grow (Melchert 2003c:147 n. 5, contra Starke 1990a:310). The translations offered differ only regarding the kind of specification, depending on scholars’ opinions about the nature of the GIŠḫattara- instrument: CLL:64: ‘to hoe’ (or sim.), Melchert 2003c:147 n. 5: ‘to chop/mince with a pick(axe)’, HHw:47: ‘graben, hacken’, Lehrman 1998a:217, HED H:264: ‘to prick’, EDHIL:334 ‘to hoe’, Sasseville 2021a:148: ‘to chop with a pick(axe)’, DCL:s.v.: ‘to strike, pierce’; without translation DLL:44, Kronasser 1966a:501, HEG A-K:216.
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1.1.5Stem
Several scholars regard ḫattari-(ti) as a denominative verb derived from the noun ḫattara- c. ‘(a long, pointed tool suitable for destruction)’, see Starke 1990a:415 n. 1491 positing a allomorphic stem ḫattri̯i-/ḫattrai̯i-, CLL:64, HEG A-K: 221; undecided Kronasser 1966a:497, 501. However, Sasseville 2021a:148 draws attention to the compromising fact that the denominatives derived from non-mutating a-stems belong normally to the classes of verbs in -a-(ti) or -a(i)-(di), but not to the -i-(ti) verbs. A possible solution lies in deriving the word from an adjective *ḫattara/i- ‘related to/suitable for piercing/striking’, underlying both the noun ḫattara- and the verb ḫattari-(ti), which, even then, would still be semantically close enough.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *ḫatt-.