tapp(i)-

This lexeme is found in a mugawar for the Storm-god of Zippalanda.

[D.S.]

nom. sg.

tap-pí-iš

KBo 27.61 + KBo 48.85, 4’

(CTH 756, NS)

The interpretation as a nom./acc. sg. n. of a stem in -iš- n. is less likely.

[D.S.]

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[D.S.]

The word has appeared due to a join made by David Sasseville and published in Sasseville 2023b. On comparative and contextual grounds, Sasseville 2023b:296 argues for a meaning ‘kitchen’, etymologically comparable to Hitt. ^LÚtappāla- ‘(a kitchen employee)’. If the context is correctly interpreted, the tapp(i)- would be in charge of releasing the food provisions for the feast of the gods in the temple of Zippalanda. An Indo-European etymology with the root *tep- ‘warm’ (cf. Skt. tápas- n. ‘heat’, Lat. tepor ‘warmth’ and tepidus ‘warm’) is both phonologically and semantically tempting, but we will refrain from offering a reconstruction as long as the meaning of the lexeme is not independently confirmed.One should compare the Hittite word tappi- c. of unclear meaning (HEG T:126), which represents something that can be heated as well as something that can be handed over to the king in relation to a table.

[D.S.]

This is a simple mutated stem.

[D.S.]