bāštant-
‘decorated’
- Language
- Hittite
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3694
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
bāštant-
‘decorated’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested twice in NS inventory texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | ba-a-⸢aš⸣-ta-an | KUB 42.78 iii! 20’ | (CTH 246, NS) |
| b[a-a-aš-ta-an] | KUB 42.78 iii! 11’ | (CTH 246, NS) | |
| ba-aš-ta-a-an | KUB 42.55 i 2 | (CTH 246, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.* – For the significance of the spelling with the sign BA, see under 
pašta-. – The restoration of b[a-a-aš-ta-an] at KUB 42.78 ii 11’ follows Burgin 2022a:452.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The translation ‘decorated’ is proposed by Rieken & Yakubovich 2020a:217f., whereas CHD P:210 offers more specifically ‘trimmed (?)’, ‘filigreed (?)’ and ‘embroidered(?)’ (followed by Ünal 2007a:532). The semantic interpretation of bāštant- is based on the meaning of its formal match in Luwian, viz. baštaima/i- (see under Stem).
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1.1.5Stem
The lexeme bāštant- either derives from the Luwian base noun bašta- (i.e. pašta-), ultimately borrowed from Akkadian, featuring the denominal Hittite -ant- suffix with possessive meaning, or it represents the participle of an unattested intermediary denominal verb (HEG P:524f., HED PA:192f., Rieken & Yakubovich 2020a:217). It seems to have been built on the model of CLuw. baštaima/i-.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
For the foreign origin of bāštant-, see under its base noun pašta-.
[E.R.]
*This lemma has been written together with Marian Wehrstein.