ḫuipi(ya)-

The adjective is found in the Hittite context of a fragment from the Ištanuwa festival.

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acc. pl. c.

ḫu-i-pí-i[a-aš/-e-eš]

KBo 23.57 iv 16’

(CTH 772, NS)

HED H:360 restores ḫuipi[yēš^?] at KBo 23.57 iv 16’; HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:654 and DCL:s.v. consider ḫu-i-pí-i[a-aš/eš] (the former as an alternative to ḫuipiyatta-).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The adjective is used as an epithet of ^LÚḫarpanalla/i- ‘enemy’, which conforms well with the meaning of the underlying root, ‘to be wicked’, as suggested by Götze & Sturtevant 1938a:87f. (commenting on ḫuipayata-). However, the meaning may well differ slightly or be more general, cf. CLL:83: ‘ruthless, cruel’ or sim., HED H:360: ‘ruthless, pitiless’, HHw:52: ‘grausam’, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:654: ‘cruel’, Ünal 2007a:221: ‘ruthless, pitiless, cruel, merciless’, Melchert 2022a:200: ‘wicked’, DCL:s.v.: ‘ruthless, cruel’; without assigning a definite meaning Otten & von Soden 1968a:31 and Rieken 1999a:114f. with 528.

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Stem-final -iyV- points to an adjective in -i(ya)- in agreement with the attributive function (see CLL:83, Melchert 2022a:200, DCL:s.v.; incorrect Rieken 1999a:114 n. 528 assuming a Hittite i-stem).

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In spite of the attempt by Rieken 1999a:114 n. 528 to argue for a Hittite origin of ḫuipi(ya)-, the existence of other derivatives of ḫuip(i)- in Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luwian, the use of  gloss wedges in ḫuipaimma/i-, and the phonological development *-ḗ- > -ī- demonstrate that ḫuipi(ya)- was borrowed from Luwian (see Melchert 2022a:200; without argument CLL:83, HED H:360, HHw:52, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:654).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. ḫuip(i)-.