tīlila
‘meat share (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 484
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
tīlila
‘meat share (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. (or coll.) | ti-i-li-la | KBo 19.152 + KBo 27.77 iv! 14’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
| ti-i-li-la | KBo 19.153 iii 9 | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| ti-li-la | KUB 35.166 + KBo 19.154, 12’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| [ti-(i)-l]i-la | KUB 35.166 + KBo 19.154, 3’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| ˹ti˺-i-li[-la] | KBo 19.153 iii 9’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word tīlila is the subject of the verb ḫāri ‘to be warm’ and refers to something that lies beside the sacrificial meat (aškummāwa-). Therefore, it must refer to some kind of food; cf. Carruba 1972a:46, Tischler 2008a:199 (eine Opferspeise(?)). Since it is found within the part of the festival, where animals are sacrificed and meats are served, it is likely to represent something similar to aškummāwa-. By comparing with the Hittite festival for the god Ziparwa, we can adduce the sumerogram UZUḪA.LA ‘meat share’ (KBo 59.176 iv 11), which is used to designate the meats placed before the Palaic gods.
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1.1.5Stem
The word tīlila could be the neuter plural form of a neuter noun or the collective form of a common gender noun.
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