Hattic

Conjugate Verbs

Introduction

Hattic was a non-Indo-European agglutinative language spoken by the Hattians in Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC. Scholars call the language "Hattic" to distinguish it from Hittite, the Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire.

The Hattic Verb

Hattic was an ergative, agglutinative language with weakly developed suffixation but heavy prefixation. Verbs contained a string of prefixes with fixed order, expressing different grammatical relations. The verbal roots were predominantly monosyllabic or disyllabic. The verbal forms could express at least two grammatical persons by means of personal prefixes.

Verblist

• aš -- to come (here)
• anti -- to stand, to stay
• aya -- to give
• dundu -- to swear to, to implore
• eš -- to put
• ḫa(ya)n -- to open
• ḫarkimaḫ -- to be broad, to become broad
• ḫel -- to strew, to pour
• ḫer -- to allocate, assign, entrust
• ḫerta -- to hide
• ḫil -- to pour
• ḫu -- to speak
• ḫukuru -- to look
• ḫut -- to get free, move
• kamar -- to slit, slash
• kargar -- to scrape, to scratch
• karkar -- to rake, to scrape
• karkar -- to bury
• kip -- to protect
• ku -- to seize
• kun -- to look (at)
• kunkuḫḫu -- to live
• kur -- to stay
• kuwa -- to catch, grab
• lin -- to drink
• lu -- to be able
• mar -- to slit
• miš -- to receive, to get
• niwaš -- to sit
• nu/nuwa -- to go, come
• pa -- to set, to place, to put
• par- -- to you
• pu -- to look, see
• pu/bu -- to do, make
• puš -- to devour, swallow
• pušan -- to blow on
• put -- to be, exists
• sat -- to argue
• ša -- to favour, make healthy
• šam(a) -- to hear, listen
• šul -- to release, to let
• taḫ -- to put, to sit
• taḫa -- to put into
• tat -- to argue
• tawar -- to rule, to have honour/authority/power
• tewū -- to pour
• ti -- to stand, rise, climb
• tiḫ -- to build
• tu -- to eat
• tuḫ -- to take, to hold, keep
• tur -- to defeat, to beat, to win over
• ud- -- to you
• uwa -- to enter
• wāḫ -- to place, to set
• zaraš -- to call
• zija -- to lie
• zik -- to fall