/nawanawa(/i)-/, (INFANS)na-wa/i-na-wa/i-
‘great-great-great-grandson’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1321
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/nawanawa(/i)-/, (INFANS)na-wa/i-na-wa/i-
‘great-great-great-grandson’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested twice in two inscriptions. The texts originate from Hama and Maraş and date to between 900 and 700 BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom sg. | /nawanawa(/i?)s/ | (INFANS)na-wa/i-na-wa/i-sá | MARAŞ 1, §1f (Maraş) |
| (INFANS)NEG2-˹wa/i˺-[NEG2-]wa/i-sa | SHEIZAR, §5 (Hama) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably clear, cf. its cognate and derivational base /nawa(/i)-/ ‘great-great-grandson’. Only with respect to its stem final does there remain some uncertainty, because the vocalically indifferent syllabic sign 〈wa/i〉 does not permit a definite interpretation, and an alternative reading of the nom. sg. could therefore be /nawanawis/. In fact, the shape /nawinawis/ is also possible, but rather less likely, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning suggested for this lexeme follows from both its etymology as well as its contexts of attestation, see already Meriggi 1953a:56. For one, it is clearly a reduplication of /nawa(/i)-/ ‘great-great-grandson’ and hence belongs to the denotations for offspring. For another, the word is used together with other terms from the same semantic domain, i.e. (male) offspring, which occur in order, e.g. in SHEIZAR, §5: á?-mi-wa/i-tá wa/i-[...]-´ *a-mi-sa kwa/i-i-sa INFANS.NEPOS-si-sa INFANS.NEPOS-ka-la-[sa] (INFANS)NEG2-wa/i-sa (INFANS)NEG2-˹wa/i˺-[NEG2-]wa/i-sa […], meaning ‘Among my (offspring?) which grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson, great-great-great-grandson …’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:417).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The present lexeme is clearly based on /nawa(/i)-/ and represents a reduplication of it, which Oshiro 1990a:87 terms hypocoristic in the way of many Anatolian kinship terms. Because of the HLuw. writing system, it cannot be said whether or not the noun undergoes i-mutation. Irrespective of that, both the noun and adjective are originally a-stems, and it is therefore likely that this stem is maintained in the reduplication, resulting in a shape /nawanawa(/i)-/ instead of a graphemically also possible /nawinawa(/i)-/.
[AH.B.]
For the derivational base see HLuw. /nawa(/i)-.