kiyat
‘There you go!, voilà!’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 943
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
kiyat
‘There you go!, voilà!’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival text for the Palaic Pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | ki-i-at | KUB 35.165 obv. 10 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| k[i-i-a]t | KUB 35.165 obv. 17 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| [ki-i-a]t | KUB 35.165 obv. 24 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| ki-i-at | KUB 32.17 + KUB 35.167 3’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| ˹ki˺-i-at | KUB 32.17 + KUB 35.167 10’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| ki-i-at | KBo 40.108 6’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| k[i?-i-at] | KBo 40.108 1’ | (CTH 751, MS?) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
Palaic kiyat has been interpreted as an interjection with proximal deixis (Kammenhuber 1959a:18 with further literature, Carruba 1970a:59). It is used immediately when the loaves of bread are served and presented to the gods. From the context, it is expect to have the pragmatic function of French ‘Voilà!’, English ‘There you go!’ and German ‘Bitte schön!’. Melchert 1984b:34 analyzes the word as the demonstrative pronoun kī followed by the enclitic pronoun =at. This etymological analysis is surely correct, but, pace Melchert (ibid.), one is surely dealing with a univerbation, which would have arisen out of ‘This (is) it!’.
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For the lemma head see Pal. ka-.