kuinna-(di)

‘(unknown)’

Language
Cuneiform Luwian
Grammar
verb
ID
1773

1. Individual Anatolian Languages

1.1 Cuneiform Luwian

kuinna-(di)

‘(unknown)’

1.1.1Transmission

This lexeme is found in the song of growth performed at the end of the ritual for the disappearing deity involving the Palaic pantheon.

[D.S.]

1.1.2Forms

3sg. pres. ind. act. ku-in-na-ti KUB 32.18 iv 12’ (CTH 752, MS)
  ⸢ku⸣-in-na-ti KUB 32.16, 6’ (CTH 752, OS)
  [ku-in-na-t]i KUB 32.16, 12’ (CTH 752, OS)

1.1.3Meaning

The word kuinnati seems to be the predicate of the sentence, for which it is the only logical candidate. The subject ḫapšašša- is the one performing the action on the object, which is rendered with the anaphoric pronoun =an. Outdated Kammenhuber 1959a:61, 79 and Carruba 1970a:60.

[D.S.]

1.1.4Derivatives

  1. kuinnašša-

1.1.5Origin

No etymology possible.

[D.S.]

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