manzakilba-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 1052
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
manzakilba-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity containing Palaic and Luwian incantations.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. or gen. sg. | ma-an-za-ki-˹il˺-ba-aš | KUB 32.18 iv 3’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
The grammatical interpretation is not certain.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The context manzakilbaš occurs in is obscure, although it is followed immediately by the “song of growth”. Carruba 1970a:63 suggests that it refers to the name of a plant, adducing the following word ú-li-[, which is likely to be a cognate of Hitt. ulili- ‘greens’; cf. Pal. duliliyantigeš. Though possible, his hypothesis remains unprovable; cf. under Stem.
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1.1.5Stem
The word manzakilba- must be analyzed on morphological grounds as a compound consisting of mant- and kilba-. The -z- in manza- would represent the s-epenthesis expected from the sound law -tK- > -tsK- (Melchert 2003c). The first member of the compound could be related to Hitt. *mant- c. (nom. sg. manza) ‘venom (?)’ (CHD L-N:179), Luw. mantalla/i- ‘poisonous (?)’ (CHD L-N:176). However, contextual support is lacking. For a similar type of word, cf. Hitt. panzakitti- c. ‘spindle whorl’ (CHD P:95f.).
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1.1.6Origin
Contra Carruba 1970a:63, there are no reasons for taking manzakilbaš as a Hattian loanword in Palaic.
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