tarpāššā-

The clear attestations are found in the Puriyanni ritual and ritual texts from Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – For the readings, restorations, and contexts, see the respective editions by Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a.

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Meriggi 1957a:205f. was the first to suggest the translation ‘substitute’ (German ‘Ersatz’) for tarpāššā-. The function of the tarpāšsā-, in most cases a live creature, is to receive the miasma of the ritual patron and then to be killed (or destroyed); for detailed contextual analyses, cf. van Brock 1959a:122, HW:386, Kümmel 1967a:20, Josephson 1979a:177, Mouton 2004a:54f.; accepted also in Tischler 1981a:21f., Starke 1990a:168, HEG T:211f., CLL:215, HHw:169, Ünal 2007a:699; still without translation DLL:93).

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The synchronic common gender a-stem was already established by Starke 1990a:108. Sasseville 2018a:306 (followed by Melchert in DCL:s.v.) reconstructs the derivational chain as tarp(i)- + adjectival suffix -ašša/i- + individualizing suffix -a- for common gender (agent) nouns (still different CLL:215 and Kimball 2015a:65). It is hence not by accident that the lexeme shows no i-mutation and instead a spelling with plene -a- in the final syllable. The medial plene -a- probably originates in the same correlation. Therefore, Sasseville’s analysis can be complemented by an alternative step: tarp- + abstract suffix -a- (tarpa-) + adjectival suffix -ašša/i- (tarpašša/i-) + individualizing suffix -a- (tarpāššā-).

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1. tarpašša-^(ti)
2. tarpaššaḫi(t)-

Attestations of the lexeme occur in rituals and a prayer (from MS onwards).

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nom. sg.	tar-pa-aš-ša-aš(=ši-iš)	KUB 12.63 obv. 16’	(CTH 412, MS)
	[tar-pa-aš-ša-a]š(=ši-i[š])	KBo 22.118 r. col. 16’	(CTH 412, MS)
acc. sg.	[tar]-pa-aš-⸢ša⸣-[an]	KBo 4.6 obv. 11’	(CTH 380, NS)
	tar-pa-⸢a⸣-[aš-ša-an]	KBo 31.80, 3’	(CTH 380, NS)
	tar-pa-aš-ša-an	KBo 55.113, 3’	(CTH 470, NS)
	tar-pa-a-[aš-ša-an]	KBo 54.253 r. col. 6’	(CTH 832, NS)
unknown	tar-pa-aš-ša-a-aš	KBo 34.86 ii 6’’	(CTH 470, NS)

On the reading, see Tischler 1981a:21 with references. – The form tarpaššaš=šiš is interpreted as nom. sg. c. of a genitival adjective in DLL:93, CLL:216. However, following Mauro Giorgieri (pers. comm.), the sentence gu₄.maḫ ú-ul tar-pa-aš-ša-aš-ši-iš is more easily translated as “the bull is not his substitute” than “the bull is not (an animal of) a substitute.”

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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For the meaning, see under CLuw tarpāšsā-.

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See under CLuw. tarpāšsā-.

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With tarpāšsā- attested in Cuneiform Luwian and featuring a typical Luwian stem formation, there can be no doubt about the Luwian origin of the lexeme (Rosenkranz 1952a:83, DLL:93, van Brock 1959a:117, Josephson 1979a:177, Starke 1990a:168, CLL:215, HEG T:211f., HHw:169, Melchert 2005a:448, 450, DCL:s.v.; contra Tischler 1981a:24).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *tarp-.