/wassina(/i)-/
‘body’
- Language
- Common Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1350
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*/wassina(/i)-/
‘body’1.1.1Compounds
1.1.2Derivatives
1.2 Cuneiform Luwian
waššina(/i)-
‘body, (pl.) limbs’1.2.1Transmission
All examples of the lexeme are found in rituals (from MS onward), mostly from the Kuwattalla tradition, but also once in a birth incantation and a fragment of unclear assignment.
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1.2.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | wa-aš-ši-ni! | KUB 35.48 iii 11’ | (CTH 760, NS) |
| wa-aš-ši-ni-i | KBo 29.25 iii 8’ | (CTH 764, MS) | |
| NÍ.˹TE˺-ni | KUB 35.58 ii 8’ | (CTH 759, NS) | |
| dat./loc. pl. | wa-aš-ši-na-an-za | KUB 35.21 rev. 12’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| KUB 35.43 ii 37 | (CTH 761, NS) | ||
| [wa-aš-š]i-na-an-za | KUB 35.44 ii! 8’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| gen. adj. nom. sg. c. | wa-aš-ši-na-aš-ši-iš | KUB 35.20 obv. 4’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| gen. adj. nom. pl. c. | wa-aš-˹ši-na-aš-ši˺-in-z[i] | KUB 35.104 | (CTH 758, MS) |
| KUB 35.120, 4’ | (CTH 758, MS) | ||
| unknown | wa-aš-ši-na-x[ | KBo 8.129 i 3’ | (CTH 759, NS) |
Laroche 1958a:105 classifies wa-aš-ši-na-an-za at KUB 35.21 rev. 12 falsely as acc. pl. c.; corrected in Hawkins 1980a:143.
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1.2.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Reading wa-aš-ši-ni! at KUB 35.48 iii 11’ after Laroche 1957a:89 (and Laroche 1958a:105, followed also in Starke 1990a:156 et aliter). – Attribution of wa-a-aš-š[i- at KBo 29.50 ii 6’ not very likely on account of the plene spelling. – Restoration a-pa-a-aš-ša-an-za [wa-aš-ši-n]a-an-za at KUB 35.16 i 9f. (Otten 1953a:89) is rejected in Starke 1985b:3 (a-pa-a-aš-ša-an-za [wa-aš-ši-na-an-za a-an-nu-un-n]a-an-zạ).
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1.2.4Meaning
The corrected reading wa-aš-ši-ni! at KUB 35.48 iii 11’ (Laroche 1958a:105) allowed the comparison between this passage and KUB 35.58 ii 7’-8’, where NÍ.˹TE˺-ni ‘on(to) the body’ takes the position of wa-aš-ši-ni!, thus providing the conclusive clue for the semantic interpretation of the latter. Much later, Melchert 2000a:177 n. 6 pointed out that the plural of waššina(/i)- ‘body’ must denote ‘limbs, members’, since at KUB 35.43 ii 37f. the possessor of the apāššanza waššinanza (dat./loc. pl.) is a single malḫaššaššiš EN-aš ‘ritual client’. This translation is adopted in CLL:264, HEG U-Z:471. Contra Otten 1953a:75, there is no positive evidence that the genitival adjective was substantivized in Cuneiform Luwian. – Outdated Meriggi 1957a:206 (“Gelübde”, “Wunsch, Versprechen”).
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1.2.5Stem
With only oblique case forms and derivatives attested, it is not possible to decide between a neuter n- or a-stem and a common gender a-stem (with i-mutation). Given the low frequency of n-stems, a thematic stem waššina(/i)- is clearly to be preferred.
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1.2.6Origin
No etymology will be offered here.
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