padd-/patz-

The verb is found in a Puriyanni ritual and in two parallel song incipits of the Ištanuwa festival texts.

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The two latter forms have already been treated under pa- ‘(unknown)’ by Zsolt Simon in the present dictionary. However, since they are here regarded as forms of padd-/patz- ‘to bring’ (see under Meaning), they appear here a second time. Under the premise that they represent archaic Ištanuwa Luwian forms with the 3sg. impv. ending -u (like paiu ‘let him give’ instead of piyaddu in the preceding sentence), they can be easily assigned to the Luwian verb padd- (following Melchert 1994a:34 and DCL:s.v.).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – See Melchert 1994a:34 for the cogent rejection of Carruba’s (Carruba 1970c:81) reading of pát-za-du as **pè-za-du. Outdated are also the readings pát-za-du and bad-za-du (DLL:124, HEG P:593, HHw:128).

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Building on Carruba 1970c:81, Melchert (CLL:175 and Melchert 1994a:34) interprets pát-za-du as /patstu/, as the spelling would suggest, and posits a stem /pat-/ ‘to carry’. The semantic interpretation is based on the parallel contexts of paddaliya-⁽ⁱ⁾, para-^(ti) and papra-⁽ⁱ⁾, all ‘to carry (off)’, describing the function of a ritualistic scape animal (see Yakubovich 2016a:75 and Oettinger 2019a:463). Melchert also adduces the hypostatic gen. sg. peran paddunaš and peran pēdunaš, Luwianized variants of peran pedum(m)aš ‘(utensil) of bringing forward’ with *pe-dh₃- > padd- and/or the Luwian infinitive suffix -una(-), which confirms the existence of the stem (for a different analysis EDHIL:674; Kloekhorst 2014b:575-577). Most recently, Melchert (DCL:s.v.) also assigned the Ištanuwa Luwian form paddu to the same lexeme, analyzing it as an archaic 3sg. impv. act. of the ḫi-conjugation -u not yet replaced by the mi-conjugation -tu. The meaning ‘to carry’ (accepted in Yakubovich 2016a:74, Oettinger 2019a:463, Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:8f.) fits the context of KBo 4.11 rev. 54f. and KBo 30.167 iii 8’-10’: duššaniyallaš=mi aiattar pāiu anti=mi=tta duwanta wāšu paddu “The duššaniyalla-official shall give me the act (i.e., the charge to act?). Let him carry the good towards me in/over a distance.”Divergent translations are still offered under duwanta and pa-, which mirrors the gradual progress of understanding the passage in the course of work on this dictionary. As a result, several forms are now convincingly united in a single paradigm.

[E.R.]

The consonant stem patz-/padd- follows the ḫi-conjugation.The alleged Cuneiform-Luwian stems pa-⁽ⁱ⁾ as posited still by Sasseville 2021a:355f. (cf. pa-ddu and its imperfective stem /pazza-/ posited by Yakubovich 2016a:74f.; cf. pát-za-du) are now superseded by Melchert’s analysis (see under Meaning).

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1. paddaliya-
2. paddur/n-
3. peran paddunaš