kummai(ya)-
‘pure, sacralized’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1127
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
kummai(ya)-
‘pure, sacralized’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations are strewn broadly among the Luwian genres: the Old Hittite Ištanuwa festival, the dupaduparša ritual of Kuwatalla and a Middle Hittite birth ritual.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. c. | [k]u-um-ma-i-in-zi | KUB 32.13 i 8 | CTH 771, MS |
| ku-um-ma-in-zi | KUB 35.94, 10 | CTH 759, NS | |
| nom./acc. pl. n. | ku-um-ma-ia | KBo 29.6 obv. 31 | CTH 762, NS |
| dat./loc. pl. | kum-ma-ia-an-za | KUB 35.103 iii 2 | CTH 766, MS |
| dat./loc. pl. | kum-ma-ia-a[n-za] | KUB 35.103 ii 11’ | CTH 766, MS |
| unknown | ku-um-ma-i[ | KUB 32.15 ii?5’ | CTH 766, MS? |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Readings checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. Contra Starke 1985a:222 n. 52, nothing speaks against a reading a[n at the end of KUB 35.103 ii 11’; cf. Melchert CLL:108.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic assignment of the lexeme is based on that of its HLuw. counterpart, which Laroche 1956b:154 recognized as the equivalent of Hitt. šuppi- ‘pure, sacred’ in a digraphic seal inscription (cf. HLuw. kummai(ya)-). Its own contexts are less informative, but fully compatible with this interpretation, since the word coordinated with ḫatayann(i)- ‘wise (ones)’, positively characterizes human beings or gods associated with the Moon-god in the birth ritual CTH 766. In addition, the referent of the substantive or substantivized adjective kummaya is an object worth of magnification or praise in KBo 29.6 obv. 30’f.
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1.1.5Stem
As stems in -ai(ya)- are built on non-mutating a-stems (David Sasseville, pers. comm.), the base of kummai(ya)- can easily be identified with the stem kumma- ‘sacralized object’, from which it is derived with the ubiquitous -i(ya)- suffix to form a relational adjective.
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1.1.6Derivatives
- kummayalla/i-
()kummayann(i)- (name of a spring) (del Monte & Tischler 1978a:534, Cammarosano 2018a:220-223). Contrary to Laroche DLL:56, not a compound, but a derivative in -ann(i)-.