ḫuipayata-

The sole attestation of the word is transmitted in the Tunnawiya ritual.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Already Götze & Sturtevant 1938a:87 offers parallels for the single -t- in -tt-stems.

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The rough semantic interpretation goes back to the contextual analysis by Götze & Sturtevant 1938a:87f., who suggested a similar meaning, viz. ‘wickedness’. Used as the characterization of offspring or mankind (dumu-latar), parallel to aggantaš ḫatugatar ‘terror of the dead’, a general meaning is likely. Accordingly, translations as ‘wickedness’ or near-synonymous terms entered the dictionaries (cf. HW:71 (still skeptical), HEG A-K:264, CLL:82, HED H:360, HHw:52, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:653f., Ünal 2007a:221f.; most recently Melchert 2022a:200 and DCL:s.v.). Further support is provided by other collocations of derivatives from the same root; cf. ^LÚḫarpanalliyēš ḫuipiy[aš/eš] ‘cruel enemies’ and tarpīn ḫuipin ‘cruelty related to bellicosity’ at KBo 23.57 iv 16f.’ .

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While it is perfectly possible that the underlying Luwian stem belongs to the class of neuters in -tt(a)-, there is slight evidence that the variant ḫuipatta- was turned into a common gender noun when borrowed into Hittite. The same process is likely for ḫuipayatta- (contra CLL:82 and DCL:s.v.).Götze & Sturtevant 1938a:87 still classified the word as a Hittite common gender -tt- abstract noun, followed by HW:71, HEG A-K:264.. Melchert 2022a:200 (CLL:82 and DCL:s.v.) derives the word from an adjective *ḫuipai(ya)-, which is, nowadays, best analyzed as the -i(ya)- adjective built from a non-mutated abstract or collective noun *ḫuipa-. For the parallel formation based on the factitive verb ḫuipa-^(ti), see under ḫuipatta-.

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As shown by Melchert 2022a:200 (contra Rieken 1999a:114f. with 528), the word families of Hitt. ḫuwapp- ‘to do evil to’ and CLuw. ḫuip(i)- ‘cruelty, ruthlessness’ can be connected most easily, if one starts from *Hu̯op- in Hittite and *Hu̯ḗp-o- in Luwian (with Luwian *ḗ > -i-). Taken together with the emergence of the verb ḫuipa-^(ti) discovered by Sasseville 2021a:25 and the gloss-wedge-marked noun ḫuḫ(ḫ)upa- and participle ḫuipaimma/i-, it demonstrates the Luwian provenance of ḫuip(i)- and its derivatives (see also CLL:82, Melchert 2005a:449, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:653f., DCL:s.v.).

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