/patta-/
‘drink (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, coll.
- ID
- 3663
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/patta-/
‘to drink’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme /patta-/ is a hapax legomenon attested in the inscription BABYLON 1 dated to the 10th or 9th century BCE.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. coll. | pa-ta | BABYLON 1, §15 (Aleppo) |
1.1.3Meaning
The word pa-ta has mostly been left untranslated, cf. Hawkins 2000a: 392, Payne 2012a: 90-91. Yakubovich 2016a:89 proposes the meaning ‘drink’ based on co-occurrence of eating and drinking in §10, which seems to occur anew in §15. Barnes 2022-2023a:30-34 attempts to reject the semantic interpretation on contextual grounds, although nothing speaks against Yakubovich´s interpretation. The prohibition is definitely in relation to someone who might come in for /azai/ and /pazai/ ´eat (and) drink (the food of the god)´, to whom the Storm-god will not allow to eliminate this food (and) drink.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
The instance of pa-ta can be analyzed as the neuter plural of a neuter a-stem or better as a collective formation in /-tta-/ (see Yakubovich 2016a:89). It is noteworthy that the noun was derived from the non-extended root, i.e. */pa-/ ‘to swallow, drink’ without /-s-/.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /pass-(ti)/.