itti-
‘(body part)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 470
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
itti-
‘(body part)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested within the incantations of the festival for the Palaic pantheon and once on a fragment, i.e. KBo 14.110 (CTH 754), which might belong to the Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity (CTH 752).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | it-ti-n(=) | KUB 35.165 rev. 8’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| [i]t-ti-n(=) | KBo 14.110, 3’ | (CTH 754, OS?) | |
| [it-]ti-n[(=) | KBo 53.301, 9’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
For the last attestation of the table and the restoration of its context, see Sasseville 2019a:30f.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. The sequence it-ti-na-an-ta can be interpreted either as ittin=anta or ittinan=ta (Carruba 1970a:58). The preference is given over to the first variant (likewise Melchert 1994a:205), since the verb of the sentence, i.e. tazzu-, is not construed with the particle =ta in the other attestation in KUB.165 obv. 9, but rather with =anta.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Because of the ambiguity of the sign <i/et>, the lexeme could also be read as etti-.
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1.1.4Meaning
In comparison with the parallel sentence following the one of ittin, this lexeme itti- should refer to something similar to kardin ‘heart (?)’. The context refers to the preparation of sacrificial meat for the gods to consume. The word ittin is the direct object of the verb tazzu- ´to take´, which is attested towards the beginning of the ritual, where it takes bread as its direct object (Sasseville 2019a:25, 27). Therefore, itti- must refer to a body part of the sacrificed animal just like kardin. No semantic assignment is offered by Kammenhuber 1959a:26, Carruba 1970a:58, Carruba 1972a:30 and Sasseville 2019a:25.
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1.1.5Origin
No etymology possible.
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