palayan-
‘(a copper object)’
- Language
- Hittite
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c./n.
- ID
- 804
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
palayan-
‘(a copper object)’1.1.1Transmission
Hapax in a Hittite oracle inquiry in LNS.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom.-acc. sg. n. / acc. pl. c. | URUDUpa-la-˹ia?˺-an-za | KpT 1.60 i 4’ |
Attestation based on Miller 2019a:144, 146 checked against the photographs provided by J. L. Miller and E. Rieken. Miller reckons with an accusative due to the presumable verb of the sentence, arḫa ḫarganut ‘to ruin completely’. H. C. Melchert (pers. comm.) describes it either as acc. pl. c. or nom.-acc. sg. n. with the Luwian particle and argues for the latter (as a neuter n-stem) due to the derivative palayanalliya(nt)- (see s.v.). Although the context is fragmentary, due to the presumable verb a nominative (i.e. palayant-) is improbable.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Miller 2019a:146 entertains an alternative reading pa-la-˹ra?˺-an-za. However, as H.C. Melchert (pers. comm.) pointed out, the existence of palayanalliya(nt)-, a possible derivative of palayan- (see s.v.) rather argues for the reading pa-la-˹ia?˺-an-za.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘(a copper object)’
No meaning has been suggested until now (cf. Miller 2019a:145f.). Due to the determinative URUDU we are dealing with a copper object, but the fragmentary passage does not allow any precise definition (nothing more can be said about its derivative, palayanalliya(nt)-, either, see s.v.).
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1.1.5Derivatives
1.1.6Origin
If the grammatical definition is correct, we are surely dealing with a Luwian word (Melchert pers. comm.) due to its Luwian ending.
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