tarpatarpatta-

The lexeme is found once in a Middle Hittite ritual fragment from the Kuwattalla tradition.

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.(?)

tar-pa-tar-pa-at-ta

KUB 35.49 iv 7

(CTH 761, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

In the context, the evils that have befallen the ritual patron are said to be destroyed by means of several methods. One of them is for the evil to somehow end up in tarpatarpatta-, which, therefore, must be a type of calamity (for the understanding of the passage in general and of tarpatarpatta- specifically, see Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:234-237). Combining this approximate interpretation with the connection with tarp(a)i-^(di) ‘to attack, advance against’, the possible occurrence of tarpatarp(a)i-^(di) ‘to (constantly) oppose, compete, fight’ a few lines earlier (iv 2), and the function of the reduplication in tarpatarpatta-, a meaning such as ‘constant struggle, opposition (?)’ becomes likely. A largely etymology-based interpretation ‘deflection (of evil)’ is offered in DCL:s.v., which is not followed here.

[E.R.]

The stem formation is largely transparent, yet permits two analyses regarding the order of the derivational processes. First, a reduplicated nominal stem *tarpa-tarp(i)- was possibly derived as both a denominative verb in -(a)i-^(di), i.e. tarpatarp(a)i-^(di), and a stem in -a-tta- c. (for the type, see Sasseville 2021a:215; cf. especially the triad of šarla/i- ‘sublime’, šarl(a)i-^(di) ‘to exalt by praise’, and šarlatt(a)- n. ‘exaltation’). Secondly, the reduplication may have followed the suffixation in each case (implicitly DLL:93, CLL:216, DCL:s.v.).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. tarp(i)-.