Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with Pe, PI, PU

191 Pages·2013·2.19 MB·English

by  Jaan Puhvel

Hittite Etymological Dictionary
Trends in Linguistics
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Editor
Volker Gast
Editorial Board
Walter Bisang
Hans Henrich Hock
Natalia Levshina
Heiko Narrog
Matthias Schlesewsky
Niina Ning Zhang
Editor responsible for this volume
Hans Henrich Hock
De Gruyter Mouton
Hittite Etymological
Dictionary
Volume 9: Words beginning with
PE, PI, PU
by
Jaan Puhvel
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 978-3-11-031841-8
e-ISBN 978-3-11-033124-0
ISSN 0179-8251
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Preface
This volume is inscribed to the memory of Werner Winter, whose stew-
ardshipandfaithintheenterprise,aswellassteadyandtoleranteditorial
input, have been indispensable and invaluable.
It completesthe letter P, withS as thenext stop in anappasiwaz which
hopefully will not be coterminous with Greek calends.
In an era when even once venerable publishers stoop to marketing
supercilious and immature compendia, it bears recalling that the literal
senseof“etymology”wasrenderedbackin1656as“veriloquy”inThomas
Blount’sGlossographia.Itstaskremainstointuitandtestprobable(ifnot
always provable) truth, rather than selecting and manipulating data to
fit one preconceived formal Procrustean scheme or another. In deference
to scholarly decorum, the first-person singular pronoun does not occur
anywhere in the entries of HED as referring to the author’s whims and
preferences, unlike a tendency proliferating in some contemporary prac-
tice.
Theworkcontinues,subjecttotheprovisoarticulatedlongagoinKUB
36.75(cid:2) KBo 52.13 III 19(cid:3)22:
nu wa¯tar ma¯hhan kuwapi arasmi
nu peda-mit natta saqqahhi
nu GISˇma´ ma¯hhan kuitman hatantiya a¯rhi
nu natta saqqahhi
‘like water, whither I flow, my place I know not;
like a ship, whether in time I arrive at land, I know not’
J.P.

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Corrections and additions to volumes 1(cid:3)8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Concordance of previous corrections and additions
to volumes 1(cid:3)7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
An eye on the sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Volume 9
Words beginning with PE, PI, PU