wiwidā-

Attested in a Hittite treaty and in a trilingual hymn (NS & LNS).

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3sg. pres. act.	wi5-ú-i-da-a-i	KBo 5.4 rev. 29	(CTH 67, NS)
	ú-i-wi5-ta-[a-i]	KBo 5.4 rev. 36	(CTH 67, NS)
	ú-e-ú-˹i˺[-da-i]	KUB 4.8 obv. 6’	(CTH 314, LNS)

Attestations follow HEG U-Z:582 (cf. also Friedrich 1952a:256;Laroche 1959a:111f.; Melchert 1979a:265f.; Ünal 2007a:806) checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. The restorations are generally accepted (for KUB 4.8 obv. 6’ cf. also Laroche 1964a:71 [but with question mark]; Schwemer 2001a:192; and Klinger 2010b:317). Melchert (cf. also Melchert 1977a:437) and HEG include also Hittite wezza- in this paradigm, which is not possible morphologically (see s.v.).

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While some scholars did not assign any meaning to this verb (Laroche 1959a:111;Kronasser 1966a:573; Zorman 2016a:597; not included in Tischler 2008a, Tischler 2016a), others suggested ‘bring, lead’ (CLL:271, but cf. below) or ‘bring here’ (Friedrich 1952a:256 [‘(her)bringen’ with question mark]) and ‘intervene’ (Kitchen & Lawrence 2012a:501 [grammatically not possible]). However, Melchert 1977a:437, Melchert 1979a:266 himself correctly argued on contextual grounds that the verb in the treaty expresses the need to do something, thus it means ‘to press, to urge’ or even ‘to move’. Some other scholars translated it similarly (Oettinger 1986b:51 with n. 50 [‘bewegt, bringt ?’, following a pers. comm. of F. Starke]; Beckman 1999:72 [‘engage’]; Devecchi 2015a:131 [‘occupare’]), while others combined a similar meaning with unjustified meanings (Ünal 2007a:806, Ünal 2016a:596 [‘to bring here, strike, urge’]; HEG U-Z:581 [‘bedrängen, Sorgen bereiten, bedrohen’; cf. also Tischler 2016a:444], 582 [‘beschäftigt’]). Both ‘to press’ (HEG U-Z:582) and ‘to strike’ (Melchert 1979a:266; Schwemer 2001a:192; Klinger 2010b:317) fit the hymn, in which the Storm God hits with his horns (the Akkadian part is too fragmentary).

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Laroche 1959a:111 (from Cuneiform Luwian widā(i)- ‘to smash’) and Starke 1990a:308 n. 1055 assumed a Luwian origin (from Cuneiform Luwian “u̯idai̯i- ‘bringen, führen’”, which, however, does not exist, see s.v. Cuneiform Luwian widā(i)-), similarly Oettinger 1986b:51, while it was taken as Hittite in Melchert 1977a:437, Melchert 1979a:267 (but it “could be” Luwian according to CLL:271) and in HEG U-Z:581 (rejecting the derivation from widā(i)- and assuming instead wizza- ‘verfolgen, bedrohen, bedrängen’ as source [following Kronasser 1966a:573]). It has not been included in the lists of Luwianisms of Melchert 2005a and van den Hout 2007a.

Although the ending can be both Hittite and Luwian, there is in fact no compelling evidence for a Luwian origin, since etymologically speaking the word can be Hittite, too (Melchert 1977a:437, Melchert 1979a:267; HEG U-Z:582f.), and the Glossenkeil may but need not refer to Luwian origin (Schwartz 1938a: 75, 78; Melchert 2005a:445). For a reconstruction see s.v. Cuneiform Luwian widā(i)-.

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