/attani(ya)-/, “COR”?-ni-
‘of soul’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1792
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/attani(ya)-/, “COR”?-ni-
‘of soul’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Commagene, dating to the early 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /attanin/ | “COR”?-ni-na | BOYBEYPINARI 2, §20 (Commagene) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is provisional. While it is doubtlessly closely related to the noun /attan(i)-/ ‘soul, self’, the attestations of both rely on the logogram COR (sign *341) to represent part of the phonological form in spelling, see HLuw. /attan(i)-/ ‘soul, self’ for details.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this adjective of appurtenance follows that of its derivational base HLuw. /attan(i)-/ ‘soul, self’. Attested only once in BOYBEYPINARI 2, §20, the clause constitutes the apodosis of a lengthy curse formula: á-pa-ti-pa-wa/i á-lá/í-sa (DEUS)ku-AVIS á-pa-si-i-na “COR”?-ni-na (“*476”)ta-wa/i-sa-ha-na PRAE-na ˹ARHA?˺ TONITRUS-wa/i-nú-wa/i-tu, approx. /abatti=ba=wa alas Kubabas abassin attanin tawashan parran ahha tarhuwanuwattu/, meaning ‘For him (scil. the person inflicting damage on the installation), Lady Kubaba shall utterly vanquish the appearance of his soul (like Tarhunt?)’. Note that Hawkins 2000a:337 does not include the adverb /ahha/ in his reading, because the inscription is severely abraded in that place. There is space for another sign, and what may be remnants of it suggest a narrow vertical shape like ARHA.
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1.1.5Stem
Although not visible in the attested form in BOYBEYPINARI 2, §20, the adjectival status of the word is reasonably certain based on the structure of the clause. It is derived with the suffix /-i(ya)-/, which undergoes i-mutation and hence contracts the resulting /-iyi-/ > /-i-/, cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.2.
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