ḫalanza-^(ti)

The sole attestation of the verb comes from a mythological fragment.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The context of the hapax does not provide decisive information on its semantics. The Storm-god proves to be immune to Ašertu’s attempt to seduce him, and he describes her reaction: ^(11’)... a-pa-a-aš-ma-mu-za-kán ḫa-la-an-za-at-ta ^(12’)[                       ki-iš-ša]-an iq-bi “... but she ḫ.-ed me (for/to herself) [                    ] spoke [to me thu]s” (KUB 36.35 i 11’f.; cf. Laroche 1968c: 26, Rieken et al. 2009t with references). The meanings suggested so far are: ‘to threaten’ (Hoffner 1965a:8, CHD L-N 261b, Trabazo 2002a:147); ‘to become furious’ (Haas 2006a:214, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:18f.); ‘to become angry at someone’ Rieken et al. 2009s; ‘to throw oneself at somebody’ (HED H:14f.); ‘to throw oneself at somebody?, to threaten, menace’ Ünal 2007a:146; ‘to threaten’ or ‘to allure’ HEG A-K:127; ‘to threaten (?)’, but also ‘to incite (?)’ (Hoffner 1967b:357); ‘to reject, thrust away (?)’ DCL:s.v.; no translation in CLL:46, Beckman 1997a:149, HHw:35, Hoffner 1998b:91). All suggestions are defensible, and the fact that the context accommodates all of them with equal ease makes a decision impossible.

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The stem seems to belong to the class in -a-^(ti). Although a stem ḫalanza-⁽ⁱ⁾ cannot be entirely excluded, stems in -zza-⁽ⁱ⁾ with a consonant preceding the suffix are unknown. The only example mentioned in Sasseville 2021a:441, tarza- ‘to turn oneself’, has now received an alternative explanation; see under lemma.

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A Luwian origin is assumed in CLL:46, van den Hout 2006a:248, and DLL:s.v., but rejected by HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:18f., arguing that a 3sg. pret. in -tta does not provide sufficient proof. Furthermore, if the stem final -za- does not represent the Luwian imperfective -zza-, little remains to support the idea that ḫalanza- was borrowed from Luwian.

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