nita
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 1254
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
nita
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The only attestation of this sequence of signs is found in the incipit of an Ištanuwian song (NS copy).
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | ni-˹ta˺ | KUB 55.38 iii 16’ | (CTH 772, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The transliteration of the relevant passage presents several difficulties, but runs as follows (according to Starke 1990a:602):
(15’) x[ ]x(-)x-wa-an-tar a-wi5 UG⟨.TUR⟩-in a-at-ti (eras.)
(16’) ni-˹ta˺ pa-ra.
The forms awi and para have been tentatively interpreted as 2sg. impv. act. forms of awi- ‘to come’ and para- ‘carry (off)’ (CLL:43, 167, Melchert 2016d:205, Sasseville 2021a:30f., 299f.). Two options for interpretation exist. Under the first one, awi ‘come!’ and para ‘bring!’ form a serialization construction with atti ‘father(?)’ in the dat./loc. sg. functioning as indirect object and UG⟨.TUR⟩-in as direct object. In that case, nita would probably represent an adverb not known so far from Anatolian. According to the second interpretation, atti is yet another 2sg. impv. act. (cf. also 3sg. pret. act. attida at KBo 29.38 obv. 15’) in a serialization construction with atti governing UG⟨.TUR⟩-in as direct object. In this interpretation, nita and para would build a clause by themselves the following line with nita as either direct object or, possibly, a negation (cf. Pal. nit ‘not’). Reaching a decision between these two options does not seem possible at present.
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1.1.5Origin
No reconstruction possible.
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