ipalāt(i)-
‘sinisterness’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3626
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ipalāt(i)-
‘sinisterness’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations occur in NS ritual fragments from the Kuwattalla tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | i-pa-la-a-ti-⸢in⸣ | KUB 35.42, 5’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
| [i-pa-la-a-ti-i]n | KUB 32.14 + KUB 34.62, 3’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| i-pa-la-a-ti-en | KUB 35.43 ii 16 | (CTH 761, NS) |
Outdated is the formal analysis as an adverb like kuwāti(n) by Otten 1953a:100.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Laroche’s semantic elucidation of ipalāt(i)- ‘sinisterness’ by equation with Hitt. gùb-latar ‘sinisterness’ took place together with that of its base ipal(i)- ‘left (hand)’, see there for the contexts and references.
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1.1.5Stem
The recognition of the abstract suffix -t(i)- in ipalāt(i)- goes back to Laroche 1958a:103. The plene writing of -ā- before the suffix and the lenition of its initial plosive may point to an intermediate step in the derivational chain, hence adj. ipal(i)- → collective noun(?) *ipalā- → ipalāt(i)-.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *ip(a)-.