kaššūt-
‘head’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 468
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
kaššūt-
‘head’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon preserved on Old/Middle and New Hittite tablets.
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1.1.2Forms
| stem form | ka4-aš-šu-ú-t(=a-at) | KUB 35.165 rev. 12’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| ka4-šu-ú-t(=a-at) | KBo 48.178 10’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. Contra Eichner 2010a:53 n. 42, the Neo-Hittite copy speaks against the suggestion of emending ka4-aš-šu-ú-ta-at in **ka4-aš-šu-ú-ga-at.
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1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme kaššūt- occurs in an enumeration of body parts of sacrificial animals to be offered as a meal to the gods (Kammenhuber 1959a:28, Carruba 1970a:56). In KBo 48.178, the Hittite part preceding the Palaic passage in question contains an enumeration of the same body parts written sumerographically. By assuming that the order of body parts is the same in each of the two passages, Palaic kaššūt- corresponds to the sumerogram SAG.DUMEŠ ‘heads’. Thus, it refers to the head(s) of the sacrificed animal(s) as meat. Contra Eichner 2010a:52, who suggests ‘neck’ without any further discussion.
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1.1.5Stem
The substantive kaššūt- can be analyzed as a neuter stem in /-úd-/; cf. ḫalpūt-.
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1.1.6Origin
No etymology is offered here.
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