ḫurtalliye/a-(mi)
‘to mix, confound, subvert’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 4096
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫurtalliye/a-(mi)
‘to mix, confound, subvert’1.1.1Transmission
The verb occurs in festival texts and in historical texts of Ḫattušili I. (from OS onwards). A full record of attestations is found in HED H:437f. and HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:772f.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | hu-ur-ta-⸢li⸣-ez-zi | KUB 1.16 iii 38 | (CTH 6, NS) |
| 3pl. pres. act. | ḫur-tal-li-an-z[i] | KUB 56.54 rev. 25’ | (CTH 678, NS) |
| ḫu-ur-ta-li-an-⸢zi⸣ | KBo 25.54 i 16 | (CTH 665, OS) | |
| 3pl. pret. act. | ḫu-ur-tal-li-e-er | KUB 1.16 iii 43 | (CTH 6, NS) |
The reading ḫu-ur-[tal-l]i-an-zi at KUB 20.11 ii 4 is doubtful, since the lacuna cannot accommodate RI as well as the missing half of LI.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic interpretation as ‘to mix, confound, subvert’ goes back to Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:156f., who combined the textual evidence of “ein negatives Verhalten” in the bilingual of Ḫattušili I and the treatment of bread morsels and wine in a trough, and successfully applied it to the base noun ḫurtalla/i- ‘mash, medley; opponent’. The proposal has been accepted since; cf. HW:77, Kronasser 1966a:493, Jucquois & Lebrun 1979a:109f., Neu 1983a:72 n. 300, HED H:437f., HHw:56, Ünal 2007a:239, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:772f. (with references), DCL:80.
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1.1.5Stem
It is common sense that ḫurtalliye/a-(mi) derives the noun ḫurtalla/i- (Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:156f., Kronasser 1966a:493, Jucquois & Lebrun 1979a:109f., HED H:437f., HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:772f.; implicit DCL:80). Given the Luwian origin of the base, the verb represents a borrowing of an unattested Luwian verb *ḫurtalli-(ti) or an inner-Hittite denominal verb formation.
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For the lemma head see Luw. ḫuwart(i)-.