/tannatta-(ti)/, (“VACUUS”)ta-na-tá-
‘to devastate’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 4042
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tannatta-(ti)/, (“VACUUS”)ta-na-tá-
‘to devastate’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested four times in inscriptions from Karkamiš and Tell Ahmar, dating to the 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. act. | /tannattahha/ | (“VACUUS”)ta-na-tá-ha | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §12 (Karkamiš) |
| (VACUUS)tá-na-ta-ha | KARKAMIŠ A12, §6 (Karkamiš) | ||
| “VACUUS”-na-ta-ha | KARKAMIŠ A27r: l. 1 (Karkamiš) | ||
| 3sg. impv. act. | /tannattattu/ | (VACUUS)ta?-na-tá-tu | BOROWSKI 1, §3 (Tell Ahmar) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.13.1 Phonological Interpretation
Supported by a host of cognates, the phonological interpretation of this verb can be regarded as secure. It is closely related to the adjective /tannatta/i-/ ‘empty’, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this verb, along with the related adjective /tannatta/i-/, was long somewhat unclear,Meriggi (HHG:118) suggested “‘(um)mauern’ oder ähnlich”., until both were connected to their CLuw. and Hittite cognates dannatta/i- ‘empty’ and dannattaḫḫ- ‘to devastate’ by Laroche 1950a:51. Although ignored for some time,And evidently abandoned by Laroche himself, see the entry for sign *245 in Laroche 1960c:130f. his hypothesis found support from Nowicki 1981a:255f., Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:74f., and Melchert 1988a:32f. The etymological connection is borne out by the contexts of attestation, e.g. in KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §12: a-wa/i *a-pa-ia REGIO-ni-ia (“VACUUS”)ta-na-tá-ha, approx. /a=wa abaya wattaniya tannattahha/, meaning ‘And I devastated those areas’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:103).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
This verb derives from the adjective /tannatta/i-/ ‘empty’ with the denominal suffix /-a-/, which usually builds factitives (Sasseville 2021a:18, 40f.).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /tannatta/i-/.