artannalla/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1528
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
artannalla/i-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested only once in a mythological passage within the Tauriša tradition (MS).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | GIŠar-ta-an-na-al-li-iš | KUB 35.107 ii 13 | (CTH 764, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme is embedded in the context of an aitiological myth, in which several gods and topographic features raise or probably restrain (cf. Hitt. arāi-/-i(ya)-(ḫi) ‘raise, check, restrain’, see CLL:26f.) the advancing sea, sky, earth, the (ill) head of the child, and two unknown items (for the context, see Steitler 2017a:385-399). Unfortunately, the object to be restrained by the GIŠartannalla/i- is among the two unknown items. The classifier GIŠ indicates that the GIŠartannalla/i- is either a plant (thus HW2 A:348 and Ünal 2007a:62 ‘a tree’), a tool made of wood or a topographical feature like a forest (cf. CLuw. ārtattar- in Hittite transmission, which designates topographic feature). However, this leaves too broad a range of options to make any serious proposal for its semantic interpretation (see DLL:32, HHw:27).
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1.1.5Stem
Regarding the two final suffixes, it is clear that they consist of a combination of the two ubiquitous formants -anna/i- and -alla/i-. Everything else must await further semantic elucidation.
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