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Stems of the Hittite hi-Conjugation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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The verbs of the Hittite hi-conjugation fall into three classes according to the final sound of the stem. In spite of more or less irregularity in each class, the following paradigms will represent the usual types of conjugation.

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Language , Volume 3 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1927, pp. 215 - 225
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Copyright © 1927 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Language 3. 161–8 (1927).

2 This form obviously belongs to the mi-eonjugation.

3 Cf. Walde-Pokorny, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen 2. 219–20.

4 Cf. ib. 2. 237–8.

5 See Sommer, Boghazköi Studien 7. 36–45.

6 The IE languages show fewer io-stems from bases in āi and ōi, and bases of these types would not account for the forms in the first and second columns of Table II.

7 Language 3. 114 (1927).

8 Grundriss der Vergleichenden Grammatik 12. 596.

9 Der Indogermanische Ablaut 135.

10 Beiträge zur Indogermanischen Wortforschung 571.

11 See Brugmann-Thumb, Griechische Grammatik 4 137.

12 See Sturtevant, American Journal of Philology 48. 251–4 (1927).

13 See Sommer and Ehelolf, BoSt. 10. 76 f. and references.

14 Zeitschrift für Assyriologie Neue Folge 2. 15 (1925).

15 See Sturtevant, Language 3. 110–2 (1927).

16 See Brugmann, Grundriss 22. 3. 153.

17 Language 3. 161–8 (1927).

18 BoSt. 3. 2163.

19 See Sommer and Ehelolf, BoSt. 10. 36 f.; Ehelolf, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 29. 987 f. (1926).

20 See Walde, Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch 2 669.

21 See Götze, Hatt. 85; Friedrich, Staatsverträge des Hatti-Reiches in Hethitischer Sprache 81, 156.

22 KBo. 5. 4. 2. 48 = Friedrich, Staatsvert. 68. Friedrich, op. cit. 156, cites also a preterit píd-da-a-áš, but píd-da-a-iš stands in the passage to which he refers.

23 See Weidner, Archiv, für Keilschriftforschung 1. 62 f. (1923); Götze, Hatt. 76; Friedrich, ZA NF. 3. 199 (1927). Friedrich, ib. 2. 52 f. (1925), discusses the compounds pennai and unnai ‘he drives’; but I doubt his interpretation of the prefixes. More convincing on the prefix pe is Götze, Hatt. 83 f.

24 See Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 2. 321.

25 See Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 2. 73–75.

26 ZA NF. 2. 2942 (1925).

27 See Götze, Hatt. 78 and references.

28 See Weidner, AKF 1. 64 (1923).

29 Cf. Brugmann, Grundriss 22. 3. 336–52, and, for the Hittite, see Sturtevant, Language 3. 112, 11331 (1927).

30 Grundriss 22. 3. 569.