ḫūpalziyati(ya)-

So far, the lexeme is found only in duplicate passages of the New Hittite Zarpiya ritual.

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nom./acc. sg. n.	ḫu-u-pal-zi-ia-ti-ia-za	KUB 9.31 ii 33	(CTH 757, NS)
		HT 1 ii 9’	(CTH 394, NS)

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No meaning of the word is offered in DLL:48, CLL:74, HHw:54, DCL:s.v. Its adjectival character is evident from the final suffix -i(ya)- and its use as an attribute of ḫaršanza ‘bread-loaf’. The preceding suffix, or rather suffix combination -iyat(i)-, known from other derivatives such as HLuw. *zitiyati(ya)- ‘masculine’ and ḫupparattiyat(i)- ‘pelvis’ (see Melchert CLL:74 and DCL:s.v.), is attached to the base *ḫupalz-. Phonologically, it can be surmised that *ḫupalz- in ḫupalziyati(ya)- goes back to *ḫupalš- (with *-ls- > -lz- [lts]) and continues the same base as ḫupallaš- ‘skull’ in Hittite transmission, but due to the length of the derivative shows the loss of the anaptyctic vowel in the final syllable of ḫupallaš-, which leads to the epenthesis. If correct, this permits more than an educated guess regarding the meaning of ḫupalziyati(ya)-, following its likely derivational path: ḫupallaš- > (+ syncope) *ḫupalz- ‘skull’ → *ḫupalziyat(i)- ‘skull-like shape’ → ḫupalziyati(ya)- ‘being of a skull-like shape, skull-shaped’, which would be an appropriate epithet for a bread-loaf.

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See under Meaning.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. ḫupallaš-.