šapāma-

This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

ša-pa-a-ma-an

KUB 35.165 obv. 6

(CTH 751, OS or MS)

The attestation [ … (-)]šap-pa-ma-an (KUB 35.163 iii 5) found in a New Hittite ritual text could belong here, but, since the context is fragmentary, it cannot be verified; cf. Carruba 1970a:69.

[D.S.]

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.

[D.S.]

The substantive šapāman is found within a passage, in which bread is served to the gods. The root of the substantive šapāman can be either šap- or š(a)pā- with an initial cluster /sP-/. From an etymological perspective, the most likely cognate would be Hitt. išpāi-/-i(ya)-^(ḫi) ‘to get full, to be satiated’. The Palaic word could be interpreted as a stem in -ma- derived from the root verb *šapā- ‘to be satiated’, i.e. šapāma- ‘that with which one becomes satiated’, and, therefore, refer to the bread meal in question. This can be further supported by the following word ḫa-a-a[n-…], which is surely a form of the verb ḫā- ‘to be warm’. In order to obtain a grammatical agreement between šapāman and ḫān[-…], the participial form ḫān[tan] is restored, i.e. ‘the warm meal’. Its analysis as common gender noun is supported by the anaphoric enclitic pronoun =an (acc. sg. c.) in the following sentence, which is the direct object of what Zaparwa looks at (Sasseville 2019a:27). The association with Pal. šapawina-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to wipe’ as suggested by Carruba 1970a:69 is not contextually adequate.

[D.S.]

Due to the uncertainty of the semantics and the etymological connection mentioned above, no reconstruction will be offered until further evidence becomes available.

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