āruna-

This hapax is attested in a song from Ištanuwa. Not to be confused with the related verb aruna(i)-^(di) ‘to raise (?`), cultivate crops’ (see Stem).

[O.B.]

3pl. impv. act.

a-a-ru-na-an-du

KUB 25.38 obv. 15’

(CTH 773, MS?)

Note the hyper-plene spelling of the initial vowel. The context is made available from a join of KUB 25.38 to HT 78 by Jared Miller (22.7.2015).

[O.B.]

All forms have been checked against the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[O.B.]

Sasseville 2021a:23f. equates the meaning of CLuw. āruna- to Hitt. šallanu-^(mi) ‘to rear, make great’ on account of a parallel Hittite passage where the verb likewise occurs with the verb mimma- ‘to favor’ in a similar context. Note that the radical base šall(a)i- ‘high, etc.’ in the Hitt. verb is semantically equivalent to Luw. aru- ‘high’, which likely forms the base of CLuw. āruna- (see Stem).

[O.B.]

Per Sasseville 2021a:34, CLuw. āruna- is an a-stem factitive verb built to a nominal base arūna-, in turn formed from the adjective aru- ‘high’. This would imply that the verb takes unlenited endings, but this is not possible to confirm on the basis of the attested material, since the 3pl. does not display any distinction between lenited and unlenited endings. According to Sasseville 2015a:287, the verb āruna- is to be separated from the related arunā(i)-^(di) ‘to raise (?), cultivate crops’, since the latter takes a different 3pl. stem with a diphthong, i.e. arunai- in the 3pl. impv. act. arunaindu. This is contra Melchert 1997b:133f. (also CLL:32) who subsumes both verbs under the same lemma, explaining the stem in ārunandu as analogical to the singular in aruna-.

[O.B.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. aru-.