mummuta[
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 4088
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
mummuta[
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The fragmentary form is attested in a ritual fragment whose assignment to a specific text remains problematic (Yakubovich & Mouton 2023b:9).
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| unknown | mu-um-mu-ta-[ | KUB 9.7 obv. 16’ | (CTH 767, MS) |
The analysis as 2sg. imp. act. in Oettinger 2015d:277 (followed in DCL:s.v.) seems to be overly optimistic. Neither part of speech nor form can be determined.
[E.R.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
As argued in CHD L-N:329, in view of the mention of šaḫ.tur ‘piglet’ two lines earlier (14’), the form likely belongs in some way to a reduplicated cognate of Hitt. mūtā(i)-(mi) ‘to root, dig, remove, neglect’, but a precise meaning cannot be offered (HHw:108, EDHIL:589, Ünal 2007a:458).Contra Oreshko 2019c:177, competing types of reduplication of a root may exist within a word family as well as root-initial /mm/ (cf. mum(m)iye/a- ‘to keep falling, crumble(?)’ beside mu(wa)-, mau(š)- ‘to fall’), so that there is no cogent argument for an assimilation of a putative /mud-muda-/ in this word.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Origin
The fragmentary context does not permit a secure assignment to either Hittite or Luwian (CHD L-N:329), which makes somewhat arbitrary the decision to treat the word as Luwian here (following the authors cited above).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw mūtamut(i)-.