talpurit-

Hapax in a Hittite ritual fragment (MS).

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dat.-loc. sg.

tal-pu-ri-ti

Kp 05/260 rev. 8’

(CTH 500, MS)

Attestation following Rieken 2006c:230 checked against the photographs of the publications (Rieken 2006c:228, Rieken 2009c:Plate XV; it is “rev.” in Rieken 2006c:229, Rieken 2009c:125, but “obv.” in her hand copy, Rieken 2009c:137). Anja Busse (pers. comm.) called my attention to the hardly legible ˹tal-pu˺-ri-ti-x[ in KBo 47.214 obv. i 32’ (CTH 500, NS, this is the reading of Groddek 2011a:167) that may also contain this word, but the fragmentary context does not help to decide this issue.

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Its meaning is unknown, but since the participants of the ritual “go” in(to) (a?) talpurit-, it must be a building or a place (cf. Rieken 2006c:230, Rieken 2009c:125: “Lokalität”), the meaning of its cognate talpuri- in KBo 20.123 iv 13’ is similar (“at/in the place of t.”, HEG T,D:61, Tischler 2008a:183, Tischler 2016a:349, without meaning in Ünal 2007a:673, Ünal 2016a:506), but cannot be identified more specifically and thus it is not helpful.

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Rieken 2006c:230, Rieken 2009c:125f. correctly assumes a Hurrian loanword via Luwian due to the -it- suffix and the direct Hurrian loanword Hittite talpuri- from the fragment of a Kizzuwatnean ritual (KBo 20.123 iv 13’; not included in Laroche 1980a and Richter 2012a).

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