tapašuwant(i)-
‘sky-blue’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1725
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
tapašuwant(i)-
1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a list of fields.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | ˹ta˺-pa-šu-wa-an-ti |
KUB 8.75 iv 16 | (CTH 239, NS) |
| ta-pa-šu-wa-an-ti |
KUB 8.75 iv 20 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| [ta-pa-šu-wa-an-t]i |
KUB 8.75 iv 57 | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| ta-pa[-šu-wa-an-ti] |
KUB 8.75 iv 59 | (CTH 239, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The adjective tapašuwant(i)- modifies lūli ‘pond’. Starke 1990a:98 rejects rightly the connection between tapašuwant(i)- and tapašša- c. ‘fever (vel sim.)’ (thus DLL:92, Meriggi 1980a:260), both on semantic and phonological/morphological grounds. Instead, he connects it with the word for ‘sky, heaven’ CLuw. tappaš- n., whose other shape *tapaš- (without the effects of Čop’s Law) is preserved in derivatives, e.g. tapašallat(i)-. Therefore, he translates tapašuwanti lūli as ‘at the sky-blue pond’, which is morphologically and semantically persuasive (considered convincing on contextual grounds by Maier 2013a:156, but not followed by HED N:95, Melchert (CLL:209), HHw:188; undecided HEG T/D:123).
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
The possessive adjective in -want(i)- derived from the form *tapaš- ‘sky’ can be interpreted as ‘having (the color of) the sky’ → ‘sky-blue’; cf. Oettinger 1988a:234 n. 59, Maier 2013a:156.
[D.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
The formation tapašuwant(i)- can be reconstructed as *nebhes-u̯ént-, which accounts for the absence of Čop’s Law in the root. On the reconstruction of the Anatolian possessive suffix, cf. Maier 2013a:237-240.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. tappaš-.