malitannaš
‘sweetness (of honey)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, neuter
- ID
- 395
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
malitannaš
‘sweetness (of honey)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival for the Palaic pantheon preserved on both Old/Middle and New Hittite tablets.
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | [m]a-li-ta-an-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 14 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| ma-li[-ta-a]n-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 19 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| [ma-]˹li˺-ta-˹an˺[-na-aš] | KBo 19.151 obv. 7’ | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| ma-l[i-ta-an-na-aš] | KUB 32.17+ 12’ | (CTH 751, MS?) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Laroche 1955a:75 suggests an etymological connection with Hitt. melit(t)- n. ‘honey’, but does not assign any particular meaning. Kammenhuber 1959a:19 adopts Laroche’s connection and translates ‘Germ. honighaltig’ (followed by Carruba 1970a:63). On the other hand, Melchert 1994a:219, 221 brings morphological evidence for an abstract noun meaning ‘sweetness’ modifying a type of bread making it sweet; cf. under Stem.
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1.1.5Stem
Melchert 1994a:219, 221 suggests to interpret ma-li-ta-an-na-aš as an abstract noun in /-ādar/-ānn-/ in the genitive, thus ‘of sweetness’ (contra Carruba 1970a:63, Eichner 1980a:146f. n. 69). The original phonetic sequence *-ādn- would lead to -ānn- in Palaic just as in Hittite. Eichner 2010a:48 follows Melchert’s interpretation and brings syntactic evidence in favor of the genitive case.
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For the Lemma Head see Pal. *malit-.