watīla-
‘(body part)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 652
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
watīla-
‘(body part)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| stem form | waa-ti-la(=kat) | KBo 19.152 i 17’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
| waa-˹ti˺[-la(=kat)] | KBo 19.153 iii 12’ | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| waa-ti-la(=kat) | KUB 35.166 6’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| [waa-t]i-la(=kat) | KUB 35.166 15’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| [w]aa-ti-i-la(=kat) | KBo 19.155 8’ | (CTH 752, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Based on the context, watīla- represents a body part that is for the king and queen to take. Since the tabarna draws the attention of Zaparwa to all the gathered meats in the previous sentence, watīla-, which is also pointed out to the god, must refer to a body part of the sacrificial animal (contra Carruba 1972a:49). It is paired with p/wūzzanni- ‘sheep fat’.
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1.1.5Origin
Pace Carruba 1970a:79, the use of the sign waa is not necessarily an indication that the word is Hattian in origin.
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