/kaTin-?/, (“SCALPRUM”)ka-ti-na-
‘(a dedicatory object), bowl (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 585
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kaTin-?/, (“SCALPRUM”)ka-ti-na-
‘(a dedicatory object), bowl (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice on stone bowls from the 9th or 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. | /kaTina?/ | (“SCALPRUM”)ka-ti-na | BABYLON 2, §1 (Aleppo) |
| BABYLON 3 (Aleppo) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is uncertain despite two syllabically spelt attestations. Within the Anatolian branch, the word remains unconnected, resulting in a lack of evidence that could serve to temper the imprecise HLuw. rendition. Possibly Hurrian kadinni ‘(a type of weapon)’ may be connected, which would support an interpretation as /kadinna-/. Neumann 1961d:175f. links it to Mycenaean ka-ti.
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1.1.4Meaning
Both attestations are part of dedicatory inscriptions on the side of stone bowls, and Meriggi (HHG:73) and also Hawkins 2000a:395-397 therefore assume that /kaTin-/ means ‘bowl’. While this is certainly possible, it should be borne in mind that the attested forms are plural in both cases rather than singular, which Hawkins 2000a:395 remarks on. Instead of assuming that each bowl came in a set of two, one could consider that /kaTina/ references objects that accompanied the bowls, but that have been lost since.
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1.1.5Stem
The analysis of the forms as nom./acc. pl. rests on the fact that, in both inscriptions, /kaTina/ is preceded by the demonstrative /zaia/ ‘these’, clearly a nom./acc. pl. (cf. Hawkins 2000a:395). In all other respects, the formation of this word remains unclear, cf. the various stems suggested by HHG:73, HED K:142, and Hawkins 2000a:395.
Puhvel (HED K:142) refutes the connection to Hittite kazzi- ‘container for liquids’ suggested by Neumann 1961d:176. If the word is indeed a loan from Hurrian, its morphological opacity presents no issue.
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1.1.6Origin
Possibly a loanword from Hurrian kadinni ‘(a type of weapon)’.
[I.Y.]