warann(i)-
‘the speaking one’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1383
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
warann(i)-
‘the speaking one’1.1.1Transmission
Two attestations come from a single NS copy from the Kuwattalla tradition. For the join between KUB 35.122 and KUB 35.156, yielding a third attestation of the lexeme, see Sasseville 2020d.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | wa-ra-an-ni-iš | KBo 29.16 ii 9 | (CTH 761, NS) |
| KBo 29.16 ii 15 | (CTH 761, NS) | ||
| wa-ra-a[n-n]i-iš | KUB 35.122 + KUB 35.156 l.col. 4´/2´ | (CTH 770, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic assignments proposed so far are based on the plausible derivational relationship with the abstract noun (u)warannaḫi(t)- and HLuw. /ni-war-ann(i)-/ ‘son, child’ (cf. Starke 1990a:167, Yakubovich 2017d, Sasseville 2021a:329; no translation in CLL:257 and HHw:220; for details see under (u)warannaḫi(t)-). If, following Sasseville, the former means ‘feature of a person related to speaking, i.e. capacity of speaking’ and the latter can be interpreted as ‘the non-speaking one’, warann(i)- is likely to denote ‘the speaking one’. Starke 1990a:452 (followed in CLL:287 and Yakubovich 2017d) reads the mixed logographic and syllabographic word DUMU-ann(i)- as *ni-warra-ann- ‘keine Hilfe habend, hilflos’, matching HLuw. /ni-war-ann(i)-/ ‘son, child’ (cf. DUMU-an-na-aš-ši-i[n], KUB 35.103 ii 13’). According to what is said under Lemma (u)warannaḫi(t)-, instead of *ni-warra-ann- the reading would be *ni-war-ann(i)- ‘the non-speaking one’; for attestations see CLL:287.
The two fragmentary contexts of warann(i)- taken by themselves offer little to go on regarding the semantic interpretation of the word. However, the first one, ˹a-aš-ša˺-ad-du wa-ra-an-ni-iš ma-aš-ša-an-n[a-…] ‘Let the warann(i)- speak [to?] …!’ (KBo 29.16 ii 9’), may at least support the above interpretation, since its verb likewise refers to the act of speaking. It cannot be proven that lallatta(-)x ibid. ii 14’, in the line preceding the second instance of the word, is the form of a verbum dicendi of the Lallwort-type, although it may seem a tempting assumption.
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1.1.5Stem
Obviously, the stem is built on the root verb *war- derived with the frequent -ann(i)- suffix, which is used to form adjectives and the substantivizations thereof.
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