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Hittite Verbs with Suffix na, sa, or a

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

E. H. Sturtevant
E. H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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Abstract

[The Hittite suffix corresponding to Indo-European nā forms verbs of the hi-conjugation, which corresponds to the IE perfect system. Phonetic law induced in IE a confusion with the neu- verbs in the first plural and another phonetic law produced a first sing, that might be interpreted as belonging to the present system. Analogy then completed the transfer of the entire category to the present system. The origin of the Hitt. suffix sa is unknown, and the suffix a may have originated in Hitt. itself.]

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Language , Volume 7 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1931, pp. 167 - 172
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Copyright © 1931 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 In this paper I omit the useless diacritics from h and š.

2 Sommer and Ehelolf, Boghazköi-Studien 10.22; Götze, Madduwattas 129 f.

3 See Götze, Neue Bruchstücke zum Grossen Text des Hattušiliš und den Paralleltexten (Hatt. 2) 76.

4 See Götze, Hatt. 2. 64–76.

5 Cf. Brugmann, Grundriss der Vergleichenden Grammatik der Indogermanischen Sprachen 22. 3. 325.

6 On these stems, see Sommer, BoSt. 10. 55; Götze, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie NF 2.16 f., 263 ff.

7 On this passage cf. Friedrich, ZA NF 1.166 f.; Götze, Madd. 801.

8 Cf. Götze, Madd. 81–100; Sturtevant, Lang. 5. 8–14.

9 See Götze, Madd. 129 f.; Sturtevant, Lang. 7. 6–9.

10 See Götze, ap. Delaporte, Grammaire de la Langue Hittite 66; cf. also kuennesk- and kuenniya-.

11 Stems originally ending in ō (dahhi: δδωκα) or in ā (memahhi : μμνŋμϰι). See Lang. 3.215–25. Delaporte treats them on page 73.

12 See American Journal of Philology 50. 260–9, Transactions of the American Philological Association 60. 33.

13 Cf. Hirt, Indogermanische Grammatik 4. 205.

14 A Sanskrit Grammar 288.

15 See Lang. 3.220 f.; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1.139 ff.

16 See Walde, Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch2, s.v. cunctor.

17 For the IE forms, see Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1.118 ff.