papartama/i-

The word is found only in a New Hittite fragment of a votive text.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Instead, DCL:174 reads the entire MUNUS^ME.EŠ before pa-pár-ta-mi-en-zi as a determinative. Either reading is possible.

[E.R.]

The word is listed only in DCL:174 and without translation, but Melchert relates it to papartaman- classified in a very general way as a word for a “destructive act.”

The fragmentary passage of the votive text describing a votive statue features the Akkadographic body part noun kurītu ‘calf, fibula’ (ibid. 13’) and the verbal phrase peran iyantari ‘they walk in front’ (ibid. 15’), which does not reveal much. However, in combination with a morphological analysis the evidence becomes less obscure. On account of its reduplication, it is more likely than not that the underlying verb follows the ḫi-conjugation; hence *paparta-⁽ⁱ⁾, whose regular participle is papartamma/i- (if present here, with deficient spelling of the participial suffix -amma/i- as °a-mi-). Alternatively, it can be analyzed as an animate noun in -m(i)- derived from *paparta-⁽ⁱ⁾, or a possessive adjective from a noun *papart(i)- (for these types, see Melchert 2003b:195). The root part- is known to be the base of words for ‘leg’, ‘deer pass (?)’, ‘to escape (?)’, ‘to build up momentum, to set off’, which fits well the surrounding context of ‘calf, fibula’ and ‘walking in front’. This strongly suggests a cognate of that root. The easiest solution would see the word as the participle of the reduplicated verb: “women setting of,” i.e. depictions of female figures located at the deity’s lower leg and having set off, and other figures walking in front of the deity.

[E.R.]

For the analytic options and the solution preferred here, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

The ending indicates a Luwian lexeme (DLL:174).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. part-.