ubadinnum
‘(a type of military(?) service and estate)’
- Language
- Luwian in Old Assyrian Transmission
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, m.
- ID
- 3876
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Old Assyrian transmission
ubadinnum
‘(a type of military(?) service and estate)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs in Old Assyrian economical texts. The attestations below are taken from CAD U:3.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | ú-ba-dí-num | TCL 21 214A:10 | |
| ú-ba-dí-nu | TCL 21 214A:12 | ||
| gen. sg. | ú-ba-dí-nim | ICK 3 21a:8 |
Dercksen 2007a:35 mentions a “writing ú-pa-ti/tí-im without suffix” at Kt v/k 152:15, 20.
[E.R.]
1.1.3Meaning
Matouš 1979a:38 concludes from the contexts that the ubadinnum are “eine Menschengruppe einheimischer Personen, die auf dem Gemeingut arbeiteten und lebten” (similar HW:235, Klinger 1996a:200, Yakubovich 2005a:247, HEG U:82). Starke 1990a:198 equates the lúMEŠ upatiyaš with the ubadinnum in the Old Assyrian texts, whereas CAD U:3 claims that the term is used not only to denote the people living as tenants on an estate, but also the grounds themselves; likewise, Marazzi 2010a:198 “possedimento terriero / territorio amministrato / dominio” and “unità/corpo militare” (Dercksen 2007a:35 with references, only: “royal land grant”). After a detailed discussion of the contexts, Beal 1992a:543-546 stresses the connection of the concept with the military sphere.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Stem
The secondary Hittite stem ubati- borrowed from Luwian or the proper Luwian nom./acc. sg. n. ubati(d) form the base of ubadinnum. For discussions of the -(V)nnum suffix frequently found in Old Assyrian adaptations of Anatolian loanwords, see Dercksen 2007a:41, Marazzi 2010a:194-197, Giusfredi 2020d, and most recently, Giusfredi, Matessi & Pisaniello 2023a:78 with references.
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1.1.5Origin
The ultimately Luwian origin of OAss. ubadinnum is generally accepted (Starke 1990a:198, Melchert 2003e:23, Giusfredi, Matessi & Pisaniello 2023a:78, DCL:s.v., see also under Stem), but scholars’ theories differ in detail. Thus, some authors claim that the word was borrowed into Old Assyrian via an intermediary loan word upati- in Hittite (Starke 1990a:198, Dercksen 2007a:35, Marazzi 2010a:194-197).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. uba-(i).