dundumama/i-

A single attestation of dundumama/i- is known, coming from a NS duplicate of a Hittite birth incantation heavily interspersed with Luwianisms.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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No meaning for Luwian dundumama/i- has been proposed, so far (DLL:99, Beckman 1983a:194, CLL:234, HEG T:440f., Ünal 2007a:736, HHw:s.v., Bachvarova 2013a:149f.). It is used in parallel fashion with other adjectives and participles to describe untypical and unpleasant states of heaven and earth, deities, or animals, e.g.: ^(10’)[da-ga-an-z]i-pa-an a-aḫ-ḫu-wa-a-aḫ-ḫu-wa-a-aḫ-ḫu-wa-a-mi-in a-uš-du ^(11’)[            ]x du-un-du-ma-mi-in a-uš-du “Let him see the [ear]th (in an) āḫḫuwāḫḫuwāma/i-(state), let him see the [           ] (in a) dundumama/i-(state)” (KUB 35.145 rev. 10’f.). A more precise semantic interpretation is possible based only on derivational considerations: Melchert (in CLL:234) analyzes du-un-du-ma-mi-in, which he plausibly views as a defective spelling for dundummamin, as a denominative adjective in -am(i)- derived from dundum(ma)n-. Consequently, the new interpretation proposed here of dunduman- as a type of architectural enclosure of a spring implies for dundumama/i- a meaning such as ‘furnished with/enclosed in a dunduman-’. In the context cited above, it is probably the aspect of enclosure that makes the state of being dundumama/i- untypical and unpleasant (parallel to GIS̆-ruandan ‘pegged’ and patalḫandan ‘fettered’ in the parallel text KUB 44.4 + KBo 13.241 rev. 32’).

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The Luwian suffix -am(i)- together with the acc. sg. c. ending -in reflect an i-mutated stem.

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A Luwianism is presupposed in DLL:99 and CLL:234. The suffix and the ending demonstrate that this is correct (see under Stem).

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For the lemma head, see duntuman-.