ḫuipa-(ti)
‘to act ruthlessly/cruelly’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 4000
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫuipa-(ti)
‘to act ruthlessly/cruelly’1.1.1Transmission
So far as can be told, all attestations are found in ritual texts from the Tauriša tradition (from MS onwards).
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. (?) | ḫu-i-pa-at-t[a] | KBo 68.39, 2’ | (CTH 770, MS) |
| 1pl. pret. act. | [ḫ]u-i-pu-un-ta | KBo 13.263 r. col. 3 | (CTH 766, NS) |
| part. dat./loc. pl. | ḫu-i-pa-ma-an-za | KBo 13.260 ii 28 | (CTH 766, NS) |
| part. of unknown case and number | ḫu-u-i-pa-am-[ | KBo 52.214, 4’ | (CTH 767, NS) |
For the compilation of the forms, see Sasseville 2021a:25 and cf. Sasseville 2019b:120f. for the attestation on KBo 68.39. The analysis of ḫu-i-pa-ma-an-za (KBo 13.260 ii 28) as participial form was anticipated by Starke 1990a:508 n. 1873. – The interpretation of [ḫ]u-i-pu-un-ta at KBo 13.263 r. col. 3 as 1sg. pret. act. follows the analysis by Melchert & Yakubovich 2022b.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – ḫu-u-i-pa-am-[ at KBo 52.214, 4’: thus the correct reading contra Otten & von Soden 1968a:31, followed by Rieken 1999a:114 and HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:654.
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1.1.4Meaning
The verb ḫuipa-(ti) was established only by Sasseville 2021a:25. He proposes the plausible connection with HLuw. hwa/i-pa-sa-nu ‘to cause harm to’ and with the passage of KBo 13.260 ii 28f. (for a contextual analysis, see under milušga/i-), in which the participle is paired with another participle of the same semantic sphere, ipama/i- ‘perverted, sinister (?)’. Although Sasseville himself refrains from translating the verb, it must mean something like ‘to do evil to (?)’ based on the meaning of the root obtained from the cognates (similar also DCL:s.v. ‘to act ruthlessly, commit cruelty’); cf. under lemma head.
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1.1.5Stem
Regarding the stem formation, Sasseville 2021a:25 suggests a stem in -a-(ti), conforming to the finite forms ḫu-i-pa-at-t[a] and [ḫ]u-i-pu-un-ta (see under Forms).
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