paddur/n-
‘utensil for bringing’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 3911
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
paddur/n-
‘utensil for bringing’1.1.1Transmission
So far, the word is found only in the ritual of Ambazzi against slander.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | GIŠpád-dur | KBo 10.37 i 18’, i 56’, ii 46’, ii 35’ | (CTH 429, NS) |
| GIŠpád-du-ur | KBo 10.37 i 23’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| Bo 4275 i 17’ | (CTH 429, NS) | ||
| [GIŠ]pád-⸢dur⸣ | KBo 10.37 i 52’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| GIŠpád-du[r] | KBo 10.37 ii 34’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| GIŠpád-dur | KBo 10.37 iii 16 | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| [GI]Š?pá[d?-dur?] | KBo 10.37 ii 40’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| dat./loc. sg. | GIŠpád-du-ni-i | KBo 10.37 i 29’ | (CTH 429, NS) |
| Bo 4275 i 10’ | (CTH 429, NS) | ||
| GIŠpád-[d]u-ni-⸢i⸣ | KBo 10.37 i 48’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| GIŠpád-d[u-ni]-i | KBo 10.37 i 51’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| GIŠpát-tu-ni-i | KBo 10.37 ii 44’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| [GI]Š⸢pád⸣-du-ni-i | KBo 10.37 i 17’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| GIŠpád-d[u-ni-i] | KBo 51.36 i 10’ | (CTH 429, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv, with the exception of Bo 4275 i 10’ and i 17’.
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1.1.4Meaning
From the context, it is clear that the lexeme denotes a container, which can be used to carry the miasma (like wrath and good tongues) off and be poured out (see CHD P:247f., HW 2nd ed. A:503a, HEG:548, HED P:208, and Christiansen 2006a:182-209). Although most scholars equate the word with Luw. battunāti ‘implement for pounding corn, pestle(?) or mortar(?)’ (see Laroche 1965a:48, CHD P:247f., HHw:128, HEG P:548, HED P:208, EDHIL:660), the semantically most suitable connection is the one with *paddur/n- in the Luw./Hitt. hybrid peran pedum(m)aš/pedunaš/paddunaš ‘(utensil) of bringing forward’; cf. already Rieken 1999a:357f.In spite of the text variant GIŠpát-tar at Bo 4275, 2’, there is no reason to equate GIŠpattar/n- ‘tray, basket’ and GIŠpaddur/n- against the evidence of the two different suffixes (thus Götze 1962a:30 followed in HW:452, Ünal 2007a:535, Puhvel 1979a:210 with n.12; but see Rieken 1999a:357 and HED P:208). However, similar meanings are not unlikely; cf. Rieken 1999a:357 and Christiansen 2006a:231.
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1.1.5Stem
The attestations of the nom./acc. sg. in -ur and the oblique cases in -un- permit an assignment to the r/n-heteroclitics (for references, see under Meaning). However, as pointed out in Rieken 1999a:357, the a-vocalism, the stem-final fortis consonant, and the plene spelling of the ending do not conform with the typical pattern of stem of the mēḫur/n- class (see under Origin).
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1.1.6Origin
On account of several noteworthy features of the stem (a-vocalism, stem-final fortis consonant, plene spelling of the ending), Rieken 1999a:357 suggested that the lexeme may represent a borrowing from Luwian, which finds support in the existence of the Luwian stem *paddun- in peran paddunaš. Although the proposal has so far been ignored, the arguments in its favor are still valid.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. padd-/patz-.