taninuwa-(i)
‘to arrange, install’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2151
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
taninuwa-(i)
1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme occurs as a Luwianism in Šuppiluliuma’s deeds and a cult inventory. The genuine Hittite attestations are not included in the table below.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | [t]a-˹ni-nu-ut˺-ta | KUB 31.7 i 8’ | (CTH 40, NS) |
| 3pl. pres. ind. act. (Hitt.) | ˹ta-ni-nu-an-zi˺ |
KUB 56.39 i 12’ | (CTH 528, NS) |
| ta-ni-nu-wa-an-zi |
KUB 56.39 ii 7’ | (CTH 528, NS) | |
| ta-ni-nu-wa-an-z[i] |
KUB 56.39 iv 27’ | (CTH 528, NS) |
The gloss wedges are adopted in Cammarosano 2018a:249 (following Neu apud HEGT,D:104), whereas Tischler 2016b:60-65 reads GAM, which is not graphically convincing.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). For a transliteration of KUB 56.39, see Cammarosano 2018a:247-257 and Tischler 2016b:60-65, and for KUB 31.7, see Del Monte 2009a:91.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this Luwianism is not different to that of Hitt. taninu-(mi) ‘to arrange, install’ (HEGT,D:103f., EDHIL:827f., Tischler 2008a:186).
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1.1.5Stem
The Luwian 3sg. pret. ending -tta fits well into the paradigm of ḫi-conjugation, expected for a Luwian formation in -nuwa-(i) (see Sasseville 2021a:463f.). Morphologically speaking, it is probably derived from a verb in -i-(ti) (= Hitt. -iye/a-(mi)); EDHIL:828) suggests instead a nominal base in -ni-, which is morphologically less convincing.
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1.1.6Origin
A Luwian origin of taninu- has been suspected due to the Luwian 3sg. pret. ending -tta instead of Hitt. -t (HEGT,D:103f., EDHIL:827f.); see also HLuw. /tanissa-(i)/. However, pace EDHIL:827f., it does not necessarily mean that taninu- is completely Luwian. Both Hittite and Luwian may have had the verbs, which would very likely make it a Proto-Anatolian formation. On the other hand, if it is related to the Luwian word dānit- n. ‘(a cult object)’ (maybe a stele), and if the etymology by Melchert is correct, the required sound law *-sn- > -n-, which would be limited to Luwian (see under lemma), would be an argument for a Luwian origin of the entire lexeme. More evidence would be welcome. For the Indo-European root etymology defended in EDHIL:827f., see also PAnat. *dhéh1-/dhh1-´ (doubted by HEGT,D:104).
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