*h3runeh2-
‘rising, heights’
- Language
- Proto-Anatolian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2234
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
arūna-
‘heights (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in an Ištanuwa Luwian passage of the festival text of Lallupiya.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. or coll. (?) | a-ru-ú-na | KUB 35.132, 5’ | (CTH 771, NS) |
The word has been tentatively interpreted as an imperative form of the verb arunā(i)-(di) (Laroche 1959a:32, CLL:32), which is not supported by the structure of the clause nor by its plene spelling. The nominal interpretation is suggested by Sasseville 2021a:83, who recognizes that it is modified by the adjective tarwaiya.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Sasseville 2021a:83 takes the nominal form arūna as the derivational base of the two denominatives āruna- ‘to make great, rear’ and arunā(i)-(di) ‘to raise (?), cultivate crops’. Melchert (apud Sasseville 2021a:83 n. 4) suggests that arūna tarwaiya means ‘woody heights (?)’. Outdated is Meriggi 1957a:201 n. 22. Melchert’s suggestion is possible, but difficult to prove due to the obscurity of the context.
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1.1.5Stem
Formally, arūna can be taken as a neuter plural or as a collective form of a common gender noun in -a-. Based on the two denominative verbs, the latter seems more likely (see Sasseville 2015a and the conclusions in Sasseville 2021a:98), although more data would be welcome.
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1.1.6Derivatives
1.2 Hittite
aruna-
‘sea’1.2.1Literature / Comments
HW 2nd ed. A:350-354
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘rising, heights’
Comparing CLuw. arūna- (a-ru-ú-na) and Hitt. aruna- (cf. once with 〈ú〉 in the dat. sg. a-ru-ú-ni), we obtain a Proto-Anatolian formation *oruneh2- ← *h3runeh2- (to *h3er- ‘to rise’; HEG A:71-73, EDHIL:212f., Sasseville 2021a:84 n. 5 and see PAnat. *h3ór-/h3r-´ ‘to arise’ for the loss of the laryngeal) with semantics pertaining to heights. The formation -una- in Hittite has been attributed to a deverbal *u̯er/n- suffix (see Rieken 1999a:354 with further literature) or to a suffix chain *-u-no- on account of aru-/-aw- ‘high’ (cf. EDHIL:212f., Rieken 2009b:152, but *-u-neh2- in Sasseville 2021a:84 n. 5).
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For the lemma head, see CLuw. aru-.