Table Of ContentTrends in Linguistics
Documentation 22
Editors
Walter Bisang
Hans Henrich Hock
Werner Winter
(main editor for this volume)
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
Hittite Etymological
Dictionary
Volume 6: Words beginning with M
by
Jaan Puhvel
Mouton de Gruyter
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Hittite etymological dictionary.
(Trends in linguistics. Documentation : 1, )
Contents: v. 1. Words beginning with A - v. 2. Words
beginning with E and I - v. 3. Words beginning with H - v. 4.
Words beginning with K - v. 5. Words beginning with L
Indices to volumes 1-5 - v. 6. Words beginning with M
1. Hittite language - Etymology - Dictionaries. I. Title.
II. Series: Trends in linguistics.
Documentation ; 1, etc.
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Preface
The alphabetic center of the Hittite lexicon has proven elusive. Volume 4
(K) referred to itself as “a waystation at the approximate half-way
point”. Volume 5 (L) opined instead that “the initial reaches of M are
the true midway of the roster”. Either way this volume would seem to
have moved deep into the second half. And yet Tischler s new HHW
(2001) covers A-M on 98 pages, vs. 101 for N-Z, which may indicate
that the median is only now at length upon us.
Rather than “lighten up”, this volume continues in the mode of textual
philology, attempting to reach each etymological core through a sifting
of a word’s total history. Such emphasis alone yields nuances which affect
assessments of proto-forms and original meanings. The occasional experi
mental referencing of CHD subsections in volume 5 has been discontin
ued. Repetitive, superannuated, or unilluminating matter codified in an
tecedent lexica or glossaries is eschewed, telescoped, or syncopated. Even
more emphasis is placed on first-hand sources, with attention to accre
tions such as the Bronze Tablet, the Manumission Epic, Meskene, Maçat,
Ortaköy, and Kuçakli.
There are further corrections and additions to previous volumes. These
should of course never cease, but tracking them at the backs of multiple
volumes can become onerous. Perhaps future indices should also entail a
concordance of addenda (e.g. Vol. 1-2:284 see 3:453, 4:319, 5:134 ...).
At the end of this volume is “An Eye on the Second Half’, a listing of
N -Z words which have already been discussed in HED A-M
(1984—2004), Analecta Indoeuropaea (IBS 35, 1981), and Epilecta Indoeu-
ropaea (IBS 104, 2002). In the last-mentioned, an interested reader can
find in “The Fate of Hittite Dictionaries” (pages 235—243) further mus-
ings on this and related enterprises.
J. P.
Contents
Preface............................................................................................................ v
List of abbreviations................................................................................... ix
Dictionary .................................................................................................... 1
Corrections and additions to volumes 1-2
(further to HED 3:443-461 and 4:317-322, 5:133-135)................. 201
Corrections and additions to volume 3
(further to HED 4:323-333 and 5:136-141)........................................ 205
Corrections and additions to volume 4
(further to HED 5:142-145)..................................................................... 209
Corrections and additions to volume 5 .................................................213
An eye on the second half..........................................................................215
List of abbreviations (additional to volumes 1-5)
DBH: Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie.
Glocker, Ritual·. Jürgen Glocker, Das Ritual für den Wettergott von Kuliwisna
(“Eothen” 6, Firenze 1997).
Hagenbuchner, Massangaben: Albertine Hagenbuchner-Dresel, Massangaben bei
hethitischen Backwaren (DBH Band 1 [2002]).
Kassian, HFR: Alexei Kassian, Andrej Korolëv, Andrej Sidel’tsev, Hittite Funer
ary Ritual sallis waätais (AOAT Band 288, Münster 2002).
KuT. Kujakli tablets.
Riemschneider, Omentexte·. Kaspar Klaus Riemschneider, Die akkadischen und
hethitischen Omentexte aus Bogazköy (DBH Band 12 [2004]).
Tischler, HHW Johann Tischler, Hethitisches Handwörterbuch (IBS Band 102
[2001]).
Ünal, Ortaköy: Ahmet Ünal, Hittite and Hurrian Cuneiform Tablets from Ortaköy
(Çorum), Central Turkey (Istanbul, 1998).
