tarpani(ya)-

The attestations are found in an instruction text and fragments assigned to the Deeds of Šuppiluliuma in the Konkordanz.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Regarding the sign shapes, KBo 19.53 looks like a MS manuscript, which, however, is incompatible with its attribution to the Deeds of Šuppiluliuma.

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Following Güterbock 1946a:56, the lexeme was connected with tarpalla/i- translated as ‘rebel, opponent’ at the time, which led to a semantic interpretation of tarpani(ya)- as ‘rebellion, riot’ (Heinhold-Krahmer 1977a:288, Tischler 1981a:23, HEG T:210, HHw:169, Ünal 2007a:699). Later, Güterbock 1956a:124 withdrew his suggestion and translated tarpalla/i- and tarpanalla/i- as ‘(ritual) substitute, usurper, rival’. Based on the latter, van Brock 1959a:126 (van Brock 1962a:106) assumed a stem *tarpan-, which Starke 1990a:233f. with n. 791 then interpreted as ‘substitution, replacement, usurpation’, adding that the -i(ya)- adjective ‘related to usurpation’ underwent substantivization. While the fragmentary contexts from the Deeds of Šuppiluliuma are far from clear, support for the interpretation comes from the instruction text with the syntagma tarpaniyaš uttar ‘word/matter of a usurper’; cf. also Del Monte 2009a:163 with n. 9; adjectival translation in CLL:215 ‘of a rival’; HHw:169 adds ‘usurpation’ to ‘rebellion, riot’.

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The n-stem *tarpan- reconstructed already by van Brock 1959a:126 (van Brock 1962a:106, followed by Tischler 1981a:23, Starke 1990a:233f., CLL:215, HEG T:205, Del Monte 2009a:163 with n. 9) was derived with the adjectival -i(ya)- suffix, with subsequent substantivization of the adjective (see under Meaning).

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As a cognate of the Luwian borrowings tarpālla/i- and tarpanalla/i-, tarpani(ya)- can likewise be assumed to be of Luwian origin (van Brock 1962a:106, Heinhold-Krahmer 1977a:288, CLL:215, HHw:169).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *tarp-.