pātiyalla/i-
‘(part of a) post’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3991
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
pātiyalla/i-
1.1.1Transmission
The noun is found in a palace inventory and a variety of ritual texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | pa-ti-al-⸢liš⸣ |
KUB 58.59 i 13’ | (CTH 247, NS) |
| acc. sg. | GIŠpa-ti-ia-al-li-en | KUB 58.34 iii 25 | (CTH 744, NS) |
| dat./loc. sg. | GIŠpa-⸢a⸣-[ti-ia-al-li] | KBo 34.93 i 10 | (CTH 500, NS) |
| GIŠpa-ti-ia-al-⸢li⸣ | KBo 13.260 iii 25’ | (CTH 766, NS) | |
| dat./loc. pl. (Hitt.) | GIŠpa-a-⸢ti⸣-ia-al-li-⸢ia⸣-aš | KBo 19.129 obv. 22 | (CTH 500, NS) |
| GIŠ⸢pa-ti-ia⸣-al-li-ia-aš | KBo 13.260 iii 23’ | (CTH 766, NS) | |
| GIŠpa-ti-ia-al-⸢li⸣-ia-aš | KBo 13.260 iii 29’ | (CTH 766, NS) | |
| nom. pl. (Hitt.) | GIŠpa-ti-ia-al-li-e-⸢eš⸣ | VBoT 24 i 13 | (CTH 393, NS) |
| unknown | GIŠpa-a-ti-ia-[al-li(-) | KBo 17.102 obv. 8’ | (CTH 699, MS?) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning was recovered by Sturtevant & Bechtel 1935a:107. As pointed out in CHD P:244, a combination of contextual analysis and the recognition of putative cognates (Hitt. pāda- ‘foot’ and its derivatives) leads to the translation ‘post’ (accepted in HW:166, van Brock 1962a:111, Kronasser 1966a:212, Oettinger 1976a:27 n. 17, Melchert 1990a:199, CHD P:244, HHw:128, HEG P:546, HED PA:205, EDHIL:653, DCL:185; also Ünal 2007a:534). Most recently, Burgin 2022a:350, 452 (and Burgin 2022b:510f.) argued that the use of the two suffixes -i(ya)- and -alla/i- cannot be meaningless and suggested a more literal interpretation “something of or related to the foot”, i.e. ‘foot (piece), leg (piece)’, without being able to specify which piece of the foot or leg of the furniture the word denotes (similar DCL:185: “having the quality of a foot”). The issue must remain unresolved until further evidence emerges. Meanwhile, ‘post’ contributes to a coherent understanding of the passages in question.
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1.1.5Stem
Following van Brock 1962a:111, the synchronic i-stem in Hittite derives the base *pod- (→ pāta- ‘foot’) with the two relational suffixes -i(ya)- and -alla/i-; cf. Melchert 1990a:199, HEG P:546, HED PA:205, Burgin 2022a:350, DCL:185.
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1.1.6Origin
A Luwian borrowing is assumed in DCL:185 (not yet in Melchert 1990a:199) and implicitly in Burgin 2022a:350; who also points to the first attestation marked by gloss wedges.Unnecessarily, Kronasser 1966a:212 posits an i-stem *pati- as the base of pātiyalla/i- (contrasting with the Luwian a-stem pāta-; but cf. Norbruis & Sasseville 2024a) and suggests a “Hyperluwismus,” given the alleged spread of i-stems in Luwian that, at the time, was believed to be observable.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /pad(i)-/.