putalliyašša-

The word is attested only twice, once in the letter from Amenhotep III to Tarḫundaradu, once in a recently discovered oracular text from Kayalıpınar.

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gen. adj. nom./acc. coll.	GADApu-tal-li-ia-aš-ša	VBoT 1 i 34	(CTH 151, MS)
	pu-tal-li-i[a-aš-]ša	KpT 1.56 ii 17	(CTH 577, NS)

For the correct reading of the first example see CHD L-N:336 and DCL:s.v.; contra Puhvel (HED PE, PI, PU:144) and Sasseville 2021a:140.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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As the determinative shows, the word denotes a kind of garment or cloth (perhaps used also to decorate tables?), but the precise meaning of the word is difficult to grasp. On account of the etymology and the coradical verb pudalli-^(ti) (and the Hittitized pudalliye/a-^(mi)), we can think of something that can be laced. Tentative translations are ‘ein wertvolles Tuch, Schärpe (?)’ (HHw:137 and HEG P:674, since this object is sent as a very precious gift in VBoT 1), ‘(cloth) belt, (waist)band, sash girdle’ (HED PE, PI, PU:144), ‘putalli-tablecloth’ (Miller 2019a:125); DCL:s.v. simply refers to it as some kind of cloth decoration for tables. Rieken 2022b:185 gives the translation ‘Gürtung, Schärpen-Anlegung’ and, regarding the odd occurrence of three nominal forms in KpT 1.56 ii 17, namely 3 GADA ŠA ^GIŠBANŠUR pu-tal-li-i[a-aš-]ša, she suggests three possible interpretations: either ‘zur Schärpen-Anlegung gehörige Tischtücher’ (unlikely, since a GADA ŠA ^GIŠBANŠUR is otherwise unknown), or ‘zur Schärpen-Anlegung gehörige Tücher des Tisches (d. h. für den Tisch)’ or ‘zur Schärpen-Anlegung des Tisches gehörige Tücher’, the last one following the typical Hieroglyphic Luwian syntax.

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This lexeme, which may be a plurale tantum and is usually considered a substantivized adjective (even if we cannot definitely rule out the possibility that it is an adjective modifying GADA: see DCL:s.v.), can be interpreted as an -ašša/i- formation from an unattested derivational base *putalliya-,The noun *putalliya- is unattested despite the claim of Sasseville 2021a:140; cf. also the wrong segmentation putalliyaš=a of HED PE, PI, PU:144, a segmentation that in HEG P:674 was considered only one of two possibilities, the second one being the correct putalliyašša/i-. a common gender abstract noun in -iya-, in turn derived from the verb putalli-^(ti) (Rieken 2022b:185, Sasseville 2021a:140, DCL:s.v.; unclear Miller 2019a:135).The substantivized genitival adjective pudalliyašša- cannot be interpreted as a derivative of *putalla/i-, since the i-mutation vowel -i- does not appear in the derivatives.

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The formation in -ašša/i- makes clear that this word is Luwian. For its reconstructed Luwian root, as well as that of putalli-^(ti) and *putalliya-, see under lemma head.

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*This lemma was written together with the trainee Marco Ammazzini.

For the lemma head see CLuw. pudalli-^(ti).