peran paddunaš (pedum(m)aš/pedunaš)

The attestations of the word are found mostly in inventory texts (all New Hittite), and only one belongs to a ritual text. For a full record, see CHD P:311f. and Kloekhorst 2014a:576.

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nom./acc. sg. (Hitt.)	[pé-r]a-an pé-e-du-ma-aš	KUB 42.11 i 3’	(CTH 241, NS)
	[pé-ra-an p]é-e-tum-ma-aš	KUB 42.32 i 7’	(CTH 249, NS)
nom./acc. sg. (Luw.-Hitt. hybrid)	pé-ra-an pé-e-du-na-aš	KUB 29.4 i 18	(CTH 481, NS)
	pé-ra-an pát-tu-⸢na⸣-a-aš	KUB 12.1 iii 1’	(CTH 246, NS)
	[pé-r]a-an pád-du-na-aš	KUB 42.69 obv. 18’	(CTH 246, NS)

The forms are free-standing genitives of a neuter verbal noun, but it remains unclear whether they can be assigned a gender of their own.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading of the initial BAD-sign is hotly disputed; cf. Košak 1978a:106f., who implausibly suggests unique pè- in order to match it with normal pé- (likewise Puhvel 1982a:318-320 and EDHIL:667f.) Also, Kloekhorst 2014a:575-577 argues against positing the Luwian verb padd- ‘to carry (off)’ altogether and resorts to seeing a folk-etymology in peran pedum/naš to remove it from the record. CHD P:311f. (followed in Burgin 2022a:380; cf. already Neu 1970a:67) considers pít/pét-, assigning the relevant forms to pittā(i)-^(mi) ‘to bring, carry, render, pay’, but this is impossible since its verbal noun would be **pittawar (see already Puhvel 1982a:318). Finally, Melchert 1994a:34 reads pád-, which is adopted here as the most frequent and economic suggestion (see under Meaning).

[E.R.]

Since Kronasser 1963a:43, the transparent peran pedum(m)aš is generally interpreted as the free-standing genitive of the verbal noun petummar ‘bringing’, combined with the preverb peran ‘in front’, i.e. as a ‘(utensil) of bringing forward’ (accepted in CHD P:311f., Rieken 1999a:357, HHw:129, Ünal 2007a:543, Miller 2004a:274f., HEG P:549, HED PE, PI, PU:55, Burgin 2022a:380; for peran pedumaš and other implement names of the same type, see Neu 1982c:140-142; unnecessary doubts raised in EDHIL:667 and Kloekhorst 2014a:575-577). It is clear from the forms ending in -unaš (with Hittite hypostatic gen. sg. built from the Luwian infinitive in -una) that word underwent Luwian influence. With only one further step, the Hittites introduced the Luwian match of Hitt. peda-, padd-/patz-. With this ingenious suggestion, Melchert 1994a:37 (CLL:175; accepted in Rieken 1999a:357; rejected in HEG P:549, EDHIL:667 and Kloekhorst 2014a:575-577) solves the problem of the BAD spelling and gains an almost completely Luwian form (padduna-š) consisting of a Luwian stem and ending.

[E.R.]

See under Meaning.

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Accepting the hybrid formation as described under Meaning (with references), one can account for it both as a Luwianized Hittite word or a Hittitized Luwian word. The Luwian components are the stem padd-/patz- and the infinitive ending -una.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. padd-/patz-.