ḫalwatnazza-⁽ⁱ⁾

The verb is only attested in NS fragments of CTH 671 “Offering and prayer to the Storm-god of Nerik”.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. The reading with -t]a- at KUB 36.88 obv. 11’ against HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:92 is justified by the rest of a Winkelhaken preceding the final vertical of TA, which excludes AT.

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In his translation of CTH 671, Haas 1970a:155 (followed by HEG A-K:137f., Deighton 1982a:84, Starke 1990a:475, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:92; similar Neu 1968a:115f. and HED H:50) renders ḫal-wa-at-na-az-za-i as ‘ist zornerfüllt’. By contrast, Melchert (CLL:40, DCL:49) seems to reject the connection with ḫalluwā(i)-^(mi) ‘to quarrel’ (which is unlikely on account of the spelling difference between -ll- and -l-), and accordingly suggests neutral ‘to become excited’ (vel sim.), which is accepted by Tischler (HHw:37), Ünal 2016a:146, and Sasseville 2021a:445. Contextually, a positive emotion is much more plausible: ^(38’)... ^DUTU ^URUPÚ ⸢AMA-KA ^D10^sic AN^E x[                  -a]n-zi ḫa-aḫ-ḫu ku-wa-pí iš-dam-ma-aš-ša-〈an〉-zi ^(39’)[ga-ra-za-š]i-kán an-da ḫal-wa-at-na-az-za-i me-li-ia-⸢at-ta⸣-ri-ia-wa-〈aš〉-ma-aš-kán an-da ^(40’)[^D10 ^URUn]e-ri-ik ^ÍDna-ki-li-ia-ta a-aš-ša-u-wa i-le-eš-šar^ḪI.A pé-eš-tén “The Sun-goddess of Arinna, your mother, (and) the Storm-god of Heaven, [your father,                     ] ..., when they hear laughter^?, [the mi]nd^? will cheer in him, and mindfulness will arise within them. [Storm-god of N]erik (and) Nakiliyat-river, provide good increases!” (KUB 36.89 rev. 38’-40’, modifying Haas 1970a:155). Negative emotions felt by the divine family would not prompt them to grant the desired goods. In contrast to that, the positive feeling could manifest as cheering and the development of mindfulness; cf. ḫalwatnalla/i- in the same text.

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Starke 1990a:475 proposes a derivation from the stem of *ḫalwattar-/ḫalwattn-, allegedly ‘anger’, without mentioning any possible verbal formation process. Melchert (CLL:50) suggests an inchoative formation through an intermediary unattested verb *ḫalwatnā(i)-^(di) ‘to be excited’ (similar DCL:49: inceptive derivative of *ḫalwatna- ‘to be excited’; skeptical Sasseville 2021a:446 n. 8 regarding the stem class of the intermediary verb).

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The word is generally assumed to be of Luwian origin; cf. van Brock 1962a:109, Laroche 1965a:46, CLL:50, HHw:37, HEG A-K:137, Starke 1990a:475, HED H:50, Melchert 2005a:452, van den Hout 2006a:248, 250, Yakubovich 2010d:55, Görke 2013a:130f., Sasseville 2021a:445, DCL:49 (undecided HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:92). Arguments in favor of this classification are the presence of the suffix -zza- and the lack of assimilation in the -tn- cluster, as well as the Luwian origin of the entire word family; see e.g. ḫalwati(ya)- under Origin.

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*This lemma was written in collaboration with Marcello Koraicho.

For the lemma head see Luw. *ḫalwa-.