baštaima/i-

The lexeme is attested three times in different inventory texts (from MS onwards).

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nom. sg. c.	ba-aš-ta-i-mi-i[š]	HT 50 r. col. 12’	(CTH 243, NS)
	[b]a-aš-ta-[i-me-iš]	KBo 18.197 ii 2’	(CTH 243, NS)
	[b]a-aš-ta-⸢i⸣-me-i[š]	KUB 42.44 ii 14’	(CTH 243, NS)
	ba-aš-⸢ta-i⸣-[mi-iš]	KUB 42.43, 14’	(CTH 246, NS)
	ba-a[š-ta-i-mi-iš]	KUB 42.43, 9’	(CTH 246, NS)
nom. pl. c.	ba-aš-ta-i-me-en-zi	KUB 12.1 iii 34’	(CTH 246, NS)
nom./acc. sg. n.	ba-aš-ta-i-m[a-an]	KBo 9.92 4’	(CTH 249, MS)

A list of forms is found in Burgin 2022a:452.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.*  ̶  The reading ma-aš-ta-i-me-en-zi (KUB 12.1. iii 34’ with ma- instead of ba-) by Košak 1978a:109 is outdated (see HEG P:525 and CHD P:210). – For the significance of the spelling with the sign BA, see under the lemma head bašta-.

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The lexeme is used to describe textiles listed in inventory texts (see Košak 1982a and Siegelová 1986a for the contexts). CHD P:210 (followed by Ünal 2007a:532) offers the meanings ‘trimmed (?)’, ‘filigreed (?)’ and ‘embroidered (?)’, based on the parallel participial use of baštaimma/i- and the Akkadogram MAŠLU (verbal adjective of mašālu ‘to trim’) in Hittite context. Rieken & Yakubovich 2020a:218 follow CHD P:210, but suggest a more generic meaning (see also bašta-) like ‘decorated’.Outdated are the following interpretations: ‘a bandage or girdle’ in HW:139, ‘woven’ by Kronasser 1966a:219 and Košak 1978a:109, ‘decorated with wickerwork’ in HHw:127, as well as ‘decorated with strips (?)’ proposed by Melchert (CLL:172); undecided Siegelová 1986a:611.

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The lexeme can be analysed as an i-mutating possessive adjective in -aimma/i-, vis-à-vis the formation baštant- with the Hittite possessive suffix -ant- (DCL:s.v.), or as a participle via an unattested denominal verb (for the latter alternative, see DLL:70, HHw:127, HEG P:524, HED PA:192f., Rieken & Yakubovich 2020a:217). In either case, the base noun is bašta-.

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The Luwian origin of baštaima/i- is guaranteed by the Luwian suffix -aimma/i- (see also DLL:70, CLL:172, van den Hout 2006a:249, HHw:127, HEG P:524, HED PA:192f., Rieken & Yakubovich 2020a:217-219), but for the borrowing of its base word bašta- from Akkadian, see under the Lemma pašta-.

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*This lemma has been written together with Marian Wehrstein.