arpūwant(i)-

The assured attestation of the lexeme comes from a tiny fragment whose genre is unknown, whereas a less securely assigned form is found in an oracle text (both NS).

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nom. sg. c.	ar-pu-u-wa-an-ti-iš	KBo 64.222, 5’	(CTH 832, NS)
nom./acc. sg. n.	ar-pu-u-wa-an-da	KBo 54.98 obv.? 3’	(CTH 561, NS)

Attestations follow Melchert pers. comm. – For syntactic reasons, the analysis of clause final ar-pu-u-wa-an-da at KBo 54.98 obv.^? 3’ as an adjective seems less likely than an interpretation as a finite verbal form, viz. a 3sg. pres. act., but there is no independent evidence for the existence of such a verb (cf. CHD L-N:47 contra the older references for arpu-). Hence, the form is assigned to the present lexeme.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Given the existence of Hitt. arpuwant- ‘slanting, steep, awry’, the form arpuwantiš is either Hittite, though Luwianized by the i-mutated ending, which does not happen very frequently with consonant stems. Or it represents the nom. sg. c. of the Cuneiform Luwian match arpuwant(i)- and cognate of arpuwan- ‘crook, bend’, which demands positing a new lemma with a meaning from the same semantic field. Since the context of the word is hopelessly fragmented, nothing further can be gleaned from it.

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Taking arpūwant(i)- and *arpuwar/arpuwan- together, one arrives at a root *arp- suffixed with possessive -want(i)- and abstract -war/-wan-. Outdated analyses by Tischler (in HEG A-K:65f.), assuming a u-adjective *arpu- (without ablaut), and Puhvel (in HED A, E, I:169), still positing a stem †arpuwatar and an underlying stem *arpu- parallel to arpa-.It is unclear which form is assumed to underlie the stem arpuwan- listed by Melchert 2005a:451.

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Ending in -wantiš, the lexeme clearly shows some Luwian interference, which is either restricted to the morphological level (ending -iš) or comes in the shape of borrowing the entire form (see under Meaning). Contra Melchert 2005a:45e, there is also no reason to assume that arpiya-^(ttari) ‘to become steep, staggering, difficult’ vel. sim. is Luwian, since the root *arp- is found also in Hitt. arp-uwant- ‘slanting, steep, awry’.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. *arp-.