taštāri-^(ti)

The attestation of the verb is limited to the MH “Hippological instructions with a ritual introduction”.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Contra Otten 1953a:27, there is a clear space before word-initial ta-.

[E.R.]

From the context it is clear that the verb denotes the motion of a horse over a distance (CLL:220):

⁽¹⁹⁾   ]x ta-aš-ta-a-ri-in-ta          2 me gi-pé-eš-šar

⁽²⁰⁾       ]x-an-ti-in-ta-ma           3 danna

⁽²¹⁾            -i]n-ta-ia-at              2 danna §

⁽²²⁾                       dan]na  ma-a-u-wa-ni-in-ta

“... they t.-ed 200 cubits (= c. 60-100 m). They [       ]-ed 3 miles, and they [       ]-ed (it^?) 3 miles. [      mil]es they ran in a four-span^?/hitched a four-span^? (vel sim.).”

Tentative suggestions include ‘to gallop’ (HHw:172), ‘to drive’ or ‘to go over a distance of a number of units of length’ (Otten 1953a:27f.) and ‘to move very fast (of horses)’ (Sasseville 2021a:469). The last-mentioned scholar wants to connect the assumed root štar- (thus without reduplication, see under Stem) with that of paštari-^(ti) ‘to fly up (suddenly)’ and paštarnuwa-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to (let^?) fly up (suddenly)’ (see under Lemma). Notwithstanding the correctness of this relationship, it is noteworthy that not only is the action taštari-^(ti) the first one of the sequence, but also implies the distance of approx. 60-100 m for a movement different from the following long-distance running over several miles. Both features combined point to a meaning ‘to start up, to set into motion’, which would agree with the root star- ‘to start in (rapid) motion’ even better than the translation suggested by Sasseville.Outdated Rosenkranz 1956a:288f., Ajchenval´d et al. 1987a: 151, 185.

[E.R.]

According to Sasseville 2021a:469 with n. 3, the stem taštari-^(ti) shows reduplication, i.e. it can be analyzed as ta-štar-i- (cf. du-šdu-m(i)- from the root *štu-). Word final -inta in the 3pl. pret. is diagnostic for the stem class in -i-^(ti).

[E.R.]

A clear indicator for the Luwian origin is the ending -inta, as recognized in Otten 1953a:27f., DLL:95, CLL:220, HEG L-N:169 and T,D:273f., Melchert 2005a:449, van den Hout 2006a:248, HHw:s.v., Sasseville 2021a:469.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. *star-.