The signs TA and DA in Old Hittite: evidence for a ... - Alwin Kloekhorst

134Alwin Kloekhorst,The Signs TA and DA in Old Hittite°n-ti(-) vs. °n-di(-)In the case of the pair TI/DI, we find that in Old Hittite texts the sign TI occurs after n 67times, whereas DI occurs in that position only 7 times. All words that are spelled with DIalso occur with a spelling with TI: ‘opposite, against’ (attested thus 3 times) ˘ha-an-di 33 isalso spelled (2 ×); ˘ha-an-ti 34 iš-pa-an-di ‘at night’ (attested thus 3 times) 35 is also spellediš-pa-an-ti (5 ×); 36 [ša-š]a-ạn-dị-i=š-ši ‘to his concubine’ (attested thus once) 37 is also spelledša-ša-an-ti-i=š-ši (1×) 38 .These forms therefore seem to show that TI and DI are interchangeable.Yet, the opposite situation is not true: not all words that are spelled with TIoccur with DI as well. In a number of cases this need not be relevant. For instance, the word‘all, every (dat.-loc.sg.)’, which is only attested as with the sign TI,˘hūmanti ˘hu-u-ma-an-ti,occurs a mere three times, 39 so that the absence of attestations with the sign DI could easilybe due to chance.There is one word, however, for which such a reasoning does not hold. The word for ‘helibates’ occurs in Old Hittite texts 36 times, all of which are spelled with the sign TI(ši-pa-a-an-ti (10 ×), 40 ši-pa-an-ti (14 ×), 41 iš-pa-a-an-ti (1×), 42 iš-pa-an-ti (11×) 43 , whereasnot a single attestation with the sign DI can be found. 44 The number of attestations withTI is too large for the absence of attestations with DI to be coincidental. Another word(that is spelled with the sign TI only is ‘palace’, which always occurs as é)˘ha-le-en-ti-u-, withthe sign TI (6 ×), 45 and never as ** ( é)˘ha-le-en-di-u-.33 a-an-di (IBoT 2.121 rev. 17 (OS), KBo 25.37 rev. 8 (OS), KBo 25.38, 7 (OS)).34h˘ a-an-ti (KBo 6.2 ii 8 (OS), KBo 17.30 ii 6 (OS)).35h˘iš-pa-an-di (KBo 3.22 obv. 6, 16, rev. 47 (OS)).36iš-pa-an-ti (KBo 17.6 iii 12 (OS), KUB 43.26 iv 18 (OS), StBoT 25.3 iii 29 (OS), StBoT 25.4 iii 29,45 (OS)).37[ša-š]a-ạn-dị-i=š-ši (VBoT 124 rev. 10 (OS)).38ša-ša-an-ti-i=š-ši (KUB 8.41 ii 7 (OS)).39 u-u-ma-an-ti (KBo 6.2 ii 59 (fr.), iii 22 (OS), KBo 17.22 iii 3 (fr.) (OS)).40h˘ši-pa-a-an-ti (KBo 17.11 iv 4, 14 (OS), KBo 25.51 i 6 (fr.) (OS), KUB 43.28 iii 9 (OS), StBoT 25.52 i 6(fr.), 14 (fr.), ii 11 (OS), StBoT 25.127 + StBoT 25.147 ii 27, iii 24, 25 (OS)).41ši-pa-an-ti (HHT 73 i 6 (OS), KBo 17.43 i 9 (OS), KBo 25.29 iii 6 (fr.) (OS), KBo 25.36 ii 8 (fr.), iii 14(OS), KBo 25.51 i 4, i 19 (fr.) (OS), KUB 28.75 ii 20 (OS), KUB 43.30 ii 10, 11, 14, 15 (OS), KUB 60.41iii 5 (OS), StBoT 25.61 iii 9 (OS)).42iš-pa-a-an-t[i] (KBo 25.44, 2 (OS)).43iš-pa-an-ti (KBo 7.41 l.col. 6 (OS), KBo 17.59 + KBo 25.99 rev. 3 (OS), KBo 20.11 ii 5 (fr.), 6, iii 5 (fr.)(OS), KBo 20.19 + KBo 20.25 i 6 (2 ×), 7, 8 (fr.) (OS), KBo 25.88, 21 (fr.) (OS), StBoT 25.4 iii 52 (fr.)(OS)).44Note that the form iš-pa-an-di, spelled with the sign DI, represents a different word, namely ‘at night’:cf. footnote 35.45Nom.-acc.sg. (É) a-le-en-ti-u (KBo 17.28 l.col. 11 (OS), KBo 25.51 + KBo 30.31 i 17 (fr.) (OS), KBoh˘25.92 r.col. 6 (OS), StBoT 12+ i 24 (fr.), 35 (fr.), 46 (OS)), abl. [ É ]a-le-en-ti-u[-a]z (StBoT 12+ i 33h˘(OS)).