pāpat(t)-
‘father’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 788
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
pāpat(t)-
‘father’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the Palaic incantations of the festival for the god Ziparwa.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | pa-a-pa-az | KUB 35.165 obv. 21 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
For the meaning see the base pāpa-. This extended form of pāpa- is found in one context (KUB 35.165 obv. 21), where it is coordinated with the word for ‘mother’. In this passage, the sun god Tiyaz is asked to become both a father and a mother to the king; cf. Kammenhuber 1955b:366, Kammenhuber 1959a:21f., Yakubovich 2005c:111.
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1.1.5Stem
The existence of the forms papāš and pāpaz has caused some debate among scholars. However, contra Carruba 1972a:44 and Höfler 2015a:159, there is no vacillation between -š and -z in the nominative ending of pāpa- and anna-, which could be interpreted as an attempt to render a voiced fricative /z/. In another attempt to explain the existence of the two different forms, Melchert 1994a:194 attempts to posit a sound law of /ts/ < /s/ before consonant, i.e. pāpaz=kuwar < *pāpaš=kuwar, but that is falsified by the numerous sequences of -š- followed by k in Palaic texts, e.g. ḫarāš=kuwar. Instead, the forms pāpaz and ānnaz simply represent a stem different from pāpa- and anna-; cf. Luw. /annatti-/.
[D.S.]
For the base of the derivative see Pal. papa-.