/adun(i)-/, á-tu-ni-
‘provisions (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1033
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/adun(i)-/, á-tu-ni-
‘provisions (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested four times in the HLuw. corpus. While three of its attestations date to the 8th century BCE, one occurs already in the 10th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /adunin/ |
(*205)á-tu-ni-na |
|
|
PANIS.PITHOS-ní-i-na |
|||
| PANIS-ni-na | KULULU 3, §4 (Tabal) | ||
| abl./instr. | /adunadi/ | (“*205”)á-tu-na-ri+i | ASSUR letter f+g, §18 |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The lexeme is attested in several writing and spelling variants in clearly legible contexts, facilitating a reasonably certain phonological interpretation. As is common especially in later texts, the abl./instr. ending in the ASSUR letter f+g attestation exhibits rhotacism of its intervocalic /d/. While a similar rhotacism for the root final consonant /d/ would be equally unsurprising, it is by no means unexpected to see 〈tu〉 used instead of 〈ru〉.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
With the basic semantics clear because of the word family, the general meaning of this lexeme can be taken to be closely connected to the more general neuter noun /ada-/ ‘food’. It is likely that /adun(i)-/, due to its different derivation, represents a particular kind of food, and in the trading context of the ASSUR letters ‘provisions’ seems particularly apt. However, it must be said that the finer details of most contexts this lexeme is attested in are only partly understood so far, and that the meaning ‘provisions’ should hence be seen as tentative until corroborated by further evidence.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
A common gender noun, /adun(i)-/ is an i-mutated stem based on the infinitive /aduna/ of the verb /ad-(ti)/ ‘to eat’ (cf. e.g. Plöchl 2003a:51).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /ad-(ti)/.