ammaniyaš

The word is found in a song incipit of the Ištanuwa ritual (NS) and in the festival mentioning the ašušatalla- functionaries.

[E.R.]

unknown	am-ma-ni-ia-aš	KBo 4.11 obv. 24	(CTH 772, NS)
	a-a-ma-ni-ia-aš	KBo 45.199 ii 10’	(CTH 665, LNS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading of ⸢za⸣-am-ma-ni-ia-an (ibid. rev. 57), to which Starke (Starke 1985b:340 n. 164) refers, is doubtlessly correct (contra DLL:26, CLL:11), but at obv. 24 no emendation of the text is also justifiable.

[E.R.]

Besides the fragmentary context of ašušatalla-festival, the word appears in a song incipit three words long (am-ma-ni-ia-aš a-la-ti ku^!-i, see Starke 1985b:340). While alati ‘from a distant’ (adj.) and kui ‘which’ are reasonably clear, ammaniyaš does not permit an informed analysis. Thus, it remains unclear whether the sequence contains any clause-initial particles or represents a single word in its entirety. Non liquet. Cf. also DLL:26, CLL:11, and HHw:s.v. without translation.

[E.R.]

Defying any semantic or morphological analysis, the opacity of the form means that the stem class of ammaniyaš remains equally unclear.

[E.R.]