parnink(i)-

In the Cuneiform Luwian corpus, parnink(i)- is attested once in a ritual against various symptoms or diseases (MS).

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acc. sg.

pár-ni-in-ki-in

KUB 35.109 ii 8, ii 9

(CTH 765, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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CLuw. parnink(i)- occurs in a list of diseases, of which besides (babbar) parnink(i)- only lappiya- ‘fever’ and sig₇.sig₇-a- ‘yellow(ness)’ are preserved. However, in Hittite context parninki- is embedded in similar lists of which two are better preserved  and one explicitly treats the ailments of the head (see HEDPA:149, HEGP:488, Groddek 1999a, 37f. and 41, HW 2nd ed.H:215). Therefore, as generally assumed, the Luwian and Hittite words must be identical and denote a disease of that body part (for references, see above and HHw:124, Ünal 2007a:524; no translation in DLL:80, CLL:170). Following Soysal 2002a:323-327, pár-ni-in-ga-aš in Hattian context also belongs here.

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Within Luwian, the stem clearly features i-mutation (cf. acc. sg. c. -in), but nothing further can be said about the structure of the word. If it is of Hattian origin, this is not surprising.

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The occurrence of the lexeme in Hattian, Hittite and Luwian context shows that it is a borrowing in at least one of the languages, perhaps in two. The intransparent structure gives support to a Hattian origin (Soysal 2002a:324).

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