ḫurtalla/i-

The lexeme is found in NS manuscripts of rituals and a historical text.

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The attestations of the acc. sg. without word-final -n display a different graphic treatment of the assimilated alveolar nasal, which is spelled as the phonetic outcome -m or omitted entirely. – The analysis of ḫu-u-ur-tal-li-iš-š=a at KUB 27,67+ iii 14 as a nom. sg. follows Christiansen 2006a:92, whereas HED Ḫ:437 proposes a nom. pl. parallel to the Luwian forms ḫu-u-ur-ta-al-li-en-zi ibid. i 8 and ii 9. This option cannot be fully excluded. – It is uncertain whether ḫu-ur-tal-li-iš-š=a at KBo 17.61 rev. 17’ should be included in the list (thus DCL:80, but a different interpretation is offered by Beckman 1983a:45, following Jucquois & Lebrun 1979a:106-109, now outdated; cf. also HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:772).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The basic semantics ‘mash, medley’ was first suggested by Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:157, and was generally followed in the literature, sometimes supplemented with metaphoric meanings, such as ‘opponent’ vel sim. (like German Aufrührer ‘rioter’); see Soysal’s (Soysal 1999b:113) interpretation as a person’s designation in the attestations of CTH 16, as well as HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:772 and DCL:80f. for further references.

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Based on the root underlying in ḫuwart(i)-, ḫurtalla/i- goes back to a derivative with the Luwian relational suffix -alla/i-, being substantivized as a concrete noun; see Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:157, HEG A-K:312, CLL:77, DCL:80, implicit DLL:49, HHw:59, Neumann 1963b:41. In Hittite, it was adapted to the i-stem class (like ḫuwart(i)-), which conforms to the assumption that it was an early borrowing.HED Ḫ:438 proposes a suffix -ali- with singleton -l- (the Hittite instrument suffix -āli-?). – The analysis by Jucquois & Lebrun 1979a:108f. suffers from diverging analyses, now outdated, and the conflation of ḫurt- ‘to curse’ and its derivatives. – Outdated is HED Ḫ:438 (contra Soysal 1999b:113), followed in Ünal 2007a:239 and HHw:56, assuming an abstract noun ḫurtalimma- c. ‘confusion’, in spite of the geminate spelling of -mm-, which cannot render the abstract suffix -ma-, -ema-, -ima-.

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1. ^Dḫurtaliya- (Otten & Souček 1969a:96)
2. ḫurtalliye/a-^(mi)

For the Luwian origin of the word family, see under the base ḫuwart(i)-. Specifically for ḫūrtalla/i-, cf. Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:157, Melchert 2005a:449, van den Hout 2006a:248, DCL:80f.

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For the lemma head see ḫuwart(i)-.