lumpašt(i)- (luppašt(i)-)
‘reason for annoyance, chagrin’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 4117
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
lumpašt(i)- (luppašt(i)-)
1.1.1Transmission
The word occurs in a New Hittite letter by Puduḫepa to Ramses II and in the incantation in a festival text.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | [l]u-um-pa-aš-ti-iš |
KUB 21.38 rev. 11 | (CTH 176, NS) |
| ⸢⸣lu-up-pa-aš-ti-iš |
KUB 36.97 rev. 1 | (CTH 600, NS) | |
| acc. sg. | lu-um-p[a-aš-ti-i]n |
KUB 21.38 rev. 12 | (CTH 176, NS) |
 ()?lu-pa-aš-tén |
KUB 21.38 obv. 65 | (CTH 176, NS) | |
| []lu-um-pa-aš-ti-in |
KUB 36.97 rev. 2 | (CTH 600, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – While one of the wedges preceding lupašten at KUB 21.38 obv. 65 represents the phonetic complement -aš in preceding zi-aš, the other marks directly before the sign LU are difficult to interpret (see HEG L-N:76). – The reading l]um-pa-ša-kán at HKM 53 obv. 9 by Alp 1991a:218 is less than assured. For a different interpretation, yet equally unlikely, see Hoffner 2009a:196.
[E.R.]
1.1.3.13.1 Phonological Interpretation
The alternation between lump- and lupp- may indicate difficulties in rendering the cluster of nasal + plosive or the weak articulation of the nasal before the plosive (Melchert 1994a:123).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The contexts as cited in CHD L-N:85 permit a general semantic interpretation as ‘something unpleasant, displeasing, offensive, or annoying’, or more concretely ‘chagrin’, ‘offense’ vel sim. One or the other entered the handbooks and editions; cf. first Güterbock apud HW:131; also Otten 1956a:102, DLL:64, CLL:129 and DCL:137 (‘regret’), Edel 1994a:221 (‘Verdruß’) and 223 (‘Kränkung’), Melchert 1994a:123 (‘chagrin, regret’), HEG L-N:76f., HHw:95, Ünal 2007a:412, Kronasser 1966a:45, 208, HED L:118f., Hoffner 2009a:287-289. At the same time and much like Hitt. kattawatar, denoting both ‘vengeance’ and ‘grounds for vengeance’, lumpašt(i)- means ‘chagrin (vel sim.)’ and ‘grounds for chagrin (vel sim.)’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
It is generally agreed that lumpašt(i)-, derived from the root lu(m)p-, contains an abstract suffix -ašt(i)-, cognate with Hitt. -ašti- in dalugašti- ‘length’ etc. (Kronasser 1966a:45, HEG L-N:76f., HED L:118f.; for the suffix, see Höfler 2015a:167-172).
[E.R.]
1.1.6Compounds
1.1.7Derivatives
1.1.8Origin
On account of the use of gloss wedges, the term was regarded as Luwian in several publications, see DLL:64, CLL:129, Melchert 1999e:366, HHw:95, Melchert 2005a:450, van den Hout 2006a:241, 246, HED L:118f. (with question mark), Höfler 2015a:167, 171f., DCL:137. Nothing speaks against this linguistic assignment, and Melchert (DCL:138) convincingly argues that the suffix -wal(i)- in the derivative luppašduwal(i)- supports it.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *lumpa-.