pad-
‘to fall’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 523
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
pad-
‘to fall’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| part. nom./acc. sg. n. | pa-da-a-am-ma-an | KBo 19.152 + KBo 27.77 iv! 13’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
| [pa-a-]ta-am-ma[-an] | KUB 35.166 + KBo 19.154, 2’ | (CTH 751, MS) | |
| pa-a-ta-am-m[a-an] | KUB 35.166 + KBo 19.154, 11’ | (CTH 751, MS) | |
| [p]a-ta-am-ma-an | KBo 19.153 iii 8’ | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| pa[-ta-am-ma-an] | KBo 19.153 iii 19’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
[D.S.]
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The participle of the verb pad- is attested once with a plene writing of the vowel -a- in the root and once in the stem vowel before the participial ending. Based on the lack of evidence, no phonological information is drawn here from the divergent plene spellings.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘to fall’
The participle padamman modifies the substantive for ‘dagger’ and refers to the action of sacrificing an animal. Watkins 1978a:311f. argues convincingly both with contextual and etymological comparisons that the verb pad- means ‘to fall’, i.e. ḫašīram=pi nī padāmman ‘the blade has not fallen’ = ‘the animal has not been sacrificed yet’ or ´the animal has not been hurt yet´ (KBo 19.152 + KBo 27.77 i 13’). Carruba 1972a:45 guesses at the semantics of padamman and compares it with Hittite pēda-(ḫi) ‘to bring’. This must be rejected, because Hitt. pē- cannot phonologically equate Pal. pa-. No semantic assignment is given in Carruba 1970a:67. Tischler (HEG P:533) suggests a putative connection with Hitt. padda-/padd-(ḫi) ‘to dig’, which is also phonologically problematic and breaths absolutely no sense into the context.
[D.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
Watkins 1978a:311 reconstructs for the stem class of the Palaic participle padamman a root verb pad-. The vowel -a- in the root excludes a full e-grade. Based on the participial form only, we cannot tell whether we are dealing with a root verb of the mi- or ḫi-conjugation. Thus, no conjugation can be reconstructed due to the lack of data, i.e. *pEd- ‘to fall’. From an Indo-European perspective, Watkins (ibid.) suggests convincingly a connection with the nominal root *pod- ‘foot’.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *pod-.