zattan
‘on this account, for this (reason)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 947
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
zattan
‘on this account, for this (reason)’1.1.1Transmission
The two attestations of zattan stem from an oracle text found in Kayalıpnar and a letter probably addressed to the Hittite king.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | za-at-tanx | KpT 1.58, 8’ | (CTH 582, NS) |
| za-at-tanx | KUB 40.1 obv. 6 | (CTH 203, NS) |
1.1.3Meaning
In spite of its sparse attestation, the meaning of zattan is clear due to its obvious connection with zā-/zī- ‘this’ and structural and syntactic parallel with apaddan. The combination with the postposition šer ‘over, above; on account of’ can be rendered as ‘on that account, for that (reason), therefore’ (HED A:88). Accordingly, zattan šer means ‘on this account, for this (reason)’ (Müller-Karpe, Müller-Karpe & Rieken 2017a:78; Miller 2019a:141).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Origin
The derivational connection with Luw. zā-/zī- ‘this’ (etymological and functional equivalent of Hitt. kā-/ke-/ki- ‘this’) reveals the Luwian origin of zattan, and additionally that of apaddan.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. zā-/zi-.