/kih(h)ar(ran)ni(ya)-/, ki-ha+ra/i-ni-
‘(something damaging)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2608
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kih(h)ar(ran)ni(ya)-/, ki-ha+ra/i-ni-
‘(something damaging)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. | /kih(h)ar(ran)ni/ | ki-ha+ra/i-ni | KARABURUN, §12 (Tabal) |
The analysis as a nom./acc. pl. of a neuter noun follows Yakubovich (apud Melchert 2016a:208 n. 21) against Hawkins 2000a:481f., who regards it as dat./loc. sg. However, the verb of the clause at KARABURUN, §12 is probably the transitive HLuw. verb /sa-(i)/ ‘to release’, making a direct object more likely.
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of the word is tentative, because the HLuw. spelling leaves some leeway in this respect. Possible shapes besides /kih(h)arni(ya)-/ are e.g. /kih(h)arranni(ya)-/ and /kih(h)arrinni(ya)-/. So far, the word is without etymological links to any of the other Anatolian languages.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
While the exact meaning of this word has yet to be discovered, it undoubtedly denotes something damaging, either concrete or abstract, cf. Melchert 2016a:208, for it occurs in the apodosis of a curse formula, denoting whatever punishment the moon-god is invoked to inflict upon an evildoer. Thus KARABURUN, §12 reads: á-pa-ti-pa-wa/i REX ha+ra/i-na-wa/i-ni-sá (DEUS)LUNA+MI-sá ki-ha+ra/i-ni za+ra/i-ti INFRA sá-tu, approx. /abatti=ppa=wa hantawattis Harranawannis Armas kiharni zarti zanta sattu/, meaning ‘(He who smashes these carvings,) to him, the king (moon-god) Arma of Harran shall then release the kiharni- down (on)to the heart’ (Melchert 2016a:208, cf. Hawkins 2000a:481).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Mainly unclear. If the analysis of the attested form as a nom./acc. pl. is correct (see discussions above), the word seems to be a stem in /-i(ya)-/, cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.2.
[AH.B.]