unaimma/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1786
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
unaimma/i-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of this lexeme occurs in a ritual fragment of the Kuwattalla tradition (NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| part. nom. pl. c.? | ú-na-i-im-mi-i[n-zi?] | KBo 8.129 obv. 5’ | (CTH 759, NS) |
The tentative restoration as nom. pl. c. follows Mouton, Puértolas Rubio & Yakubovich (pers. comm.) and is based on the nom. pl. c. zīnzi ibid. obv. 8’.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
No translation is offered in DLL:101 and HHw:s.v. Based on the assumed equation with HLuw. /uni-(ti)/, Melchert (in CLL:241) assigns the meaning ‘to know’. However, as Sasseville 2021a:138 points out, at least the stems of the two verbs cannot be identical (see under Stem). Lacking any contextual evidence, Melchert’s semantic interpretation remains no more than a remote possibility.
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1.1.5Stem
The suffix is clearly -aimma/i- either possessive or participial in function. In the case of the latter, the underlying verbal stem could be a causative-iterative un(a)i-(di) or a denominative una(i)-(di) (see Sasseville 2021a:138).
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