miš(i)ni-
‘shiny, clear (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2495
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
miš(i)ni-
‘shiny, clear (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a fragmentary song attributed here to the Palaic language. It is also perhaps attested in a compounded personal name attested in Old Assyrian transmission, i.e. mì-iš-na-aḫ-šu (for the name, see Kloekhorst 2019b:163).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | mi-ši-ni-iš | KBo 19.160 iii 7 | (CTH 754, NS) |
| KBo 19.160 iii 10 | (CTH 754, NS) | ||
| nom./acc. pl. n. or adv. | mi-iš-na | KBo 19.160 ii 4’ | (CTH 754, NS) |
| KBo 19.160 ii 10’ | (CTH 754, NS) | ||
| KBo 19.160 ii 13’ | (CTH 754, NS) | ||
| KBo 19.160 iii 3 | (CTH 754, NS) | ||
| KBo 19.160 iii 9 | (CTH 754, NS) | ||
| [m]i-iš-na | KBo 19.160 ii 7’ | (CTH 754, NS) | |
| ˹mi-iš˺-na | KBo 19.160 iii 6 | (CTH 754, NS) | |
| [mi-i]š-na | KBo 19.160 iii 12 | (CTH 754, NS) | |
| KBo 19.160 iii 15 | (CTH 754, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). On the strange spelling mišin- beside mišn-, one may compare cases like Hitt. nom. pl. pí-še-ni-eš next to gen. sg. pé-eš-na-aš ´male´ (CHD P:324f.).
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1.1.4Meaning
If mišna should be adverbial, it would denote the way one ought to speak, i.e. mišna=wa memiya! ‘Speak mišna!’. An etymological connection with Hitt. mišriwant- ‘shiny, glittering’ and the root miš- (Rieken 1999a:138) is the most direct solution. A phrase such as ‘Speak clearly! (vel sim.)’ would make sense. Moreover, Hitt. mišriwant- can be used to describe the pure or clean state of sacrificial animals (CHD L-N:298). In the first phrase, mi-ši-ni-iš=wa=kán e-et-ti-[, Pal. mišiniš could describe the following word, which might be identified as Pal. itti- ‘(a body part)’, whereas in the second passage mi-ši-ni-iš=kán šu-up-[, it precedes a word šup[- that can tentatively be related to Hitt. šuppal- n. ‘livestock’. However, due to the fragmentary state of the context, each of these claims must be considered highly hypothetical.
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1.1.5Stem
Due to the neuter plural ending -a, miš(i)ni- can be interpreted as an adjectival i-stem, whose neuter inflection is drawn from the thematic class in Palaic.
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