wāšu-
‘good(s)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, neuter
- ID
- 1823
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
wāšu-
‘good(s)’1.1.1Transmission
Although chronologically confined to NS copies, the lexeme is attested in both an OH festival text and an incantation.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | wa-a-šu | KBo 4.11, 40 | (CTH 772, NS) |
| gen. adj. nom./acc. sg. | wa-a-šu-wa-aš-ša-an-za | KUB 35.39 ii 9’ | (CTH 759, LNS) |
The occurrences listed here are those for which there is positive evidence for a substantival use, i.e. a form of the genitival adjective at KUB 35.39 ii 9’ and a lack of agreement if the word were analyzed as a predicative adjective instead at KBo 4.11, 40 (Starke 1990a:465 n. 1695). All other cases of wāšu are listed under the adverb wāšu (see under Lemma). – Reading and interpretation of paragraph-initial ˹wa˺-aš-wa-aš-ši-du-x[ at KUB 35.111 ii 4’ and u?-wa-a-šu-uz at KUB 35.7 i 9’ (over erasure) are unclear (CLL:266).
[E.R.]
1.1.3Meaning
The semantic assignment is based on that of the adjective wāšu-.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Stem
The lexeme wāšu- is one of the few neuter abstract nouns ending in the suffix -u- (Starke 1990a:465 n. 1695, CLL:266) and represents a substantivization of the adjective wāsu-.
[E.R.]