wašumman-
‘wellness, pleasantness’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 1827
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
wašumman-
‘wellness, pleasantness’1.1.1Transmission
Attestations come from two NS ritual fragments, one of which may be a birth incantation (Starke 1990a:271).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | wa-šu-um-ma-an | KUB 35.97, 8’ | (CTH 764, LNS) |
| wa-šu-ma-˹an?˺ | KBo 13.261, 7’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. – Reading of final -˹an?˺ at KBo 13.261, 7’ (contra Starke 1985b:373), because the two lower tips of the broken horizontal wedge of AN seem to be recognizable in the scratched surface. – At KUB 35.97, 8’, Bossert 1954a:95 restores D]wa-šu-um-ma-an-ḫa.
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1.1.4Meaning
The context is semantically inconclusive, but the etymological connection with wašu- ‘good, pleasant’ is probable (Starke 1990a:271, CLL:266). This suggests a meaning ‘wellness, pleasantness’ vel sim., but scholars prefer not to assign a meaning (Starke 1990a:271, CLL:266, Tischler 2008a:224, HEG W-Z:419f.).
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1.1.5Stem
While it is very likely that wašumman- is in some way derived from wašu- ‘good, pleasant’, it is not clear whether wašumman- is based on wašu- itself or on an intermediate verb (thus Starke 1990a:271, followed in HEG W-Z:419).
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1.1.6Derivatives
- DWašumma[- (cf. Bossert 1954a:95, Starke 1990a:271)