lapanallaḫi(t)-

The sole attestation of the lexeme is found in the NS Ulmi-Teššub treaty (the parallel passage in the Bronze Tablet is not legible).

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.

la-pa-na-al-la-ḫi-ti

KBo 4.10 obv. 45 + KUB 40.69 rev. 9’

(CTH 106, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – For the reading, see van den Hout 1995a:36.

[E.R.]

The translation goes back to Watkins 1997a:33 (followed in CLL:125, HED L:61, DCL:s.v.). As Starke 1990a:172 pointed out, the abstract noun in -aḫi(t)- does not derive from lapana- and, therefore, cannot mean “lapana-ship” (contra CHD L-N:40: ‘summer pasturing’ starting from superseded lapana- c. ‘summer pasture’, followed in HEG L-N:33, Ünal 2007a:396), but derives from lapanalla/i- and denotes the ‘position of a lapanalla/i-’. Combined with the semantic interpretation as ^LÚ.MEŠlapanalla/i- ‘salt-lick warden’, this yields ‘salt-lick wardenship’.

[E.R.]

See under Meaning.

[E.R.]

For the Luwian origin of the word family, see under lāpana-.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. *lapa-.