ḫūlt-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 643
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ḫūlt-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This verb is found once in a festival text with Palaic incantations and perhaps once in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. med. | ḫu-ul-ta-a-a[r?] | KUB 35.159 iii 6’ | (CTH 753, NS) |
| unknown | ˹ḫu˺-u-ul-˹ta˺[- | KBo 19.152 iii 14’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
For KUB 35.159 iii 6’, Carruba 1970a:33 reads ḫu-ul-ta-˹ḫa˺-x. Based on the photo in the Konkordanz, the reading ḫu-ul-ta-a-a[r?] is more appropriate. Therefore, it cannot be taken as a 1st singular preterit form; pace Carruba 1970a:56, Melchert 1994a:196, 227.
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1.1.4Meaning
In each of the two passages where the verb ḫūlt- is attested the context is too fragmentary to posit any kind of meaning.
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1.1.5Origin
No etymology possible.
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