p/wūzzanni-

This lexeme is found mainly in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

stem form	{wuú-ú-uz-za-an-ni(=kat)}	KBo 19.152 iv! 18’	(CTH 751, MS)
	[wu]ú-ú-uz-za-an-ni(=kat)	KBo 19.152 iv! 18’	(CTH 751, MS)
	[wu]ú-uz-za-ni(=kat)	KBo 19.153 iii 13’	(CTH 751, NS)
	wuú-za-an-ni(=kat)	KUB 35.166, 6’	(CTH 751, MS?)
	pu-za-an-ni(=kat)	KUB 35.166, 15’	(CTH 751, MS?)
	wuú-ú-uz-za-a[n-ni(=kat)]	KBo 19.155, 8’	(CTH 751, MS)
	[wuú-ú-u]z-za-⸢an-ni(=kat)⸣	Bo 9532 iii? 1´	(CTH 753, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[D.S.]

Based on the context, the word p/wūzzanni- represents something in relation to the sacrificed animal. Since the Tabarna draws the attention of Zaparwa to all the gathered meats in the previous sentence, p/wūzzanni-, which is also pointed out to the god, must refer to a body part of the sacrificial animal (contra Carruba 1972a:49). It denotes a particular piece of meat that must not be taken by the gods, but that is meant for the king and queen to use or consume. The piece of meat p/wūzzanni- is shown to at least the first four deities of the pantheon (see KUB 35.166+). Based on the Hittite version of the festival for Ziparwa (CTH 750), there is another body part of the sacrificed animals that is not offered for eating, but used to make the other body parts more delicious. It is the ^UZUÌ.UDU kar-di-ia-aš:

ŠA MÁŠ.G[AL] ^di-la[-li-ia-an-ta-aš] šu-up-pa [ḫu-u-i-šu] ^di-la[-li-ia-an-ta-aš] ^GIŠlu-ut-t[i-ia] pé-ra-a[n kat-ta] da-ga-a-a[n ti-an-zi] še-er-ma-aš-[ša-an] Ì.UDU kar-d[i-ia-aš] ḫu-it-ti[-an-zi] (VSNF 12.20 iv 4-13 et passim)

‘They place the raw meat of the ram of the Ilaliyanteš-deities on the ground before the window for the Ilaliyanteš-deities. Then, they (scil. the king and queen (?)) let the sheep fat of the heart drip upon it.’

This contextual connection is further supported by the Palaic passage, where the body parts are served and the participle wakkakanta ´made fat´ is used to describe them.

The Hittite word for ^UZUÌ.UDU is ^UZUappuzzi- n. ‘animal (sheep) fat, tallow’ (HW (2nd ed.)A:193, HED A:103), a word thought to be borrowed from Hattian (see HW (2nd ed.) A: ibid. and Kronasser 1966a:88, contra HED ibid.); cf. under Stem. In any case, the Palaic word p/wūzzanni- can be equated on contextual grounds with the sumerogram ^UZUÌ.UDU and Hitt. ^UZUappuzzi- and translated as ‘(sheep) fat’.

[D.S.]

Because of the suffixation in -anni-, Pal. p/wūzzanni- must have undergone aphaeresis, i.e. from *appuzz-anni-, which is supported by the presence of appuzzi- in a context assigned here to the Palaic language as well as by the ultimate base āppū-, a verb of uncertain meaning.

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The  interchangeability of the signs <wu_ú> and <pu>, which has often been used as an argument for a Hattian origin (Carruba 1970a:79), is not considered here to be a valid argument anymore.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see Pal. āppū-.