†
kuwalumuš
‘(ghost word)’
- Language
- Common Luwian
- Class
- Unclassified
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 1206
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
†
kuwalumuš
1.1.1Transmission
There is only one uncertain attestation with a gloss marker in a NS text.
[A.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c.? | KUB 58.89 obv. ii? 5 | CTH 832, NS |
The word is not listed in any dictionaries, but van den Hout 2006a:251 reads kuwalumuš, cf. under Graphic features for the details. The transliteration has been checked against the photo of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[A.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
The hand copy seems to support the reading of van den Hout 2006a:251, indicating a MU-sign. However, the photo in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv shows one bigger Winkelhaken at the end of the sign under discussion, which suggests that it is a TI-sign.
Hence, this form is probably rather to be read
ku-wa-lu-⸢ti?-uš⸣ (cf. also García Trabazo & Groddek 2005a:232 and Starke 1990a:134, n. 406 and 214, n. 711). It is therefore treated under the lemma
kuwaluti-. Consequently, there is no evidence for the existence of a Glossenkeilwort †
kuwalumuš.
[A.B.]

