ānnat-
‘mother’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2492
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ānnat-
‘mother’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | a-an-na-az | KUB 32.17 + KUB 35.167 8’ | (CTH 751, MS?) |
| [a-an-na-]az | KUB 35.165 obv. 22 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
For the meaning see the base anna-. This extended form of ānnat- is found in one context (KUB 35.165 obv. 21), where it is coordinated with the word for ‘father’. In this passage, the sun god Tiyaz is asked to become both a father and a mother to the king; cf. Kammenhuber 1955b:366, Kammenhuber 1959a:21f., Yakubovich 2005c:111.
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1.1.5Stem
Contra Carruba 1972a:44 and Höfler 2015a:159, there is no vacillation between -š and -z in the nominative ending of pāpa- and anna-, which could be interpreted as an attempt to render a voiced fricative /z/. Melchert 1994a:194 on the other hand attempts to posit a sound law of /ts/ < /s/ before consonant, i.e. pāpaz=kuwar < *pāpaš=kuwar, which is falsified by other sequences of -š- followed by k in Palaic texts, e.g. ḫarāš=kuwar. The forms pāpaz and ānnaz simply represent stems different from pāpa- and anna-; cf. CLuw. ānn(i)- beside HLuw. /annatt(i)-/ ‘mother’. If this is correct, the extension in -t(t)- is likely to be an areal phenomenon shared by Luwian and Palaic and does not necessitate the reconstruction of a proto-form.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Pal. anna-.