nātatt(i)-

The sole syllabic attestation of the lexeme is found in a NS copy of the dupaduparša ritual of Kuwattalla. Also the Sumerographic spellings occur in ritual texts.

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nom./acc. coll.

na-a-ta-at-ta

KUB 9.6+ iii 27’’

(CTH 759, LNS)

Sumerographically:

acc. sg.	GI-in	KBo 7.66 ii 5’	(CTH 670, MS)
	GIGAG.Ú.TAG.GA-in	KBo 29.42 obv. 5	(CTH 763, MS?)

It is not clear whether the sumerographic spellings really render *nātin, *nātattin or something else, but the most economical solution is to assign them to the stem nātatt(i)- attested in the  Cuneiform Luwian corpus.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

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Laroche 1958b:180f. with fn. 5 pointed to Hitt. nāta- c. ‘reed’ as a possible cognate of CLuw. nātatta and argued cogently that the incantation mentioning the destruction of nātatta and its placement under the feet (scil. of the ritual client) in KUB 9.6+ iii 27’’ is replicated in the ritual instructions ibid. iii 17’’ff. nu ^MUNUSŠU.GI GI^ḪI.A ANA EN SÍSKUR ŠAPAL GÌR^MEŠ-ŠU dāi ‘The “Old Woman” places reed under the feet of the ritual client (lit. ‘to the ritual client’).’ This has been generally accepted (DLL:74, HW (2nd ed.):425, CLL:156, HEG N:283f., Starke 1990a: 418, HED N:66-68, Tischler 2008a:111, Ünal 2007a:477).

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While it is clear that the form is a collective nom./acc. in -a, various proposals as to the underlying stem have been advanced. Laroche (DLL:74) thought of nātatt-, Starke 1990a:418 n. 420, 665 (followed by Melchert in CLL:156) suggested a denominative stem in -tta- (n., based on *nāt(i)- c.), and Steer 2012-2013a:161 prefers collectivizing -tta (from *-tā-). The latter two may very well be the same suffix. The logographic spellings, which point to a mutated stem, and the possible equivalent in Hittite (*nātatt- in nom. sg. c. GI-az KUB 17.10 ii 31’) tip the scales in favor of Laroche’s suggestion adapted to the new classification after the discovery of i-mutation, i.e. nātatt(i)- c.

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HW (2nd ed.):360, HEG L-N:284, HED N:66-68, CHD L-N:420

For the lemma head see PAnat. *nód-.