lawāttanna

This word is found in the Palaic ritual for the disappearing deity.

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loc. sg.(?)	la-waa-a-at-ta-an-na	KUB 32.18 iv 3’	(CTH 752, MS)
	[la]-waa-a-at-ta[-an-na]	KUB 32.18 iv 2’	(CTH 752, MS)

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.

[D.S.]

No meaning has been suggested for this Palaic word, which occurs in an obscure passage. An obvious cognate is found in an Old Hittite fragmentary text; [ … ḫa-m]e-eš-ḫi la-a-wa-at-ta-aš me-ḫ[u-ni … ] ‘in the spring at the time of lāwatta’ (KBo 20.21 rev.? 1’, CHD L-N:49). This leads to the hypothesis that the word lāwatta has something to do with spring and that it could be borrowed from Palaic (and not from Luwian pace CLL:126). Contra Carruba 1970a:2, 62, the use of the sign <wa_a> in la-wa_a-a-at-ta-an-na is no evidence for a Hattic loanword; only the vacillation -p/w- reflects the Hattic phoneme /f/; see under p/wulāšina-, p/wāšḫulla- and cf. kataḫzip/wuri- (deity).

[D.S.]

The word lawāttanna represents most likely the locative singular of a noun in -ātar/-ann-, but this analysis remains tentative until further evidence is found.

[D.S.]

No etymology possible, although an Indo-European origin is very likely (contra Carruba 1970a:2, 62).

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