*mEri̯ou̯énnā
‘balcony, balustrade (?)’
- Language
- Proto-Luwic
- Grammar
- subst, coll.
- ID
- 2621
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
mariyawanna-
‘top part of the tower, balustrade (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the middle Hittite Instructions of Arnuwandas I for province governor (BĒL MADGALTI).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. coll. | ma-ri-ia-wa-an-na | KUB 31.84 ii 3 | (CTH 261, NS) |
| GIŠma-ar-ia-wa-an-na | KUB 31.86 ii 3’ | (CTH 261, NS) | |
| instr. (Hitt.) | ma-ri-ia-wa-an-ni-it | KUB 31.84 ii 2 | (CTH 261, NS) |
| GIŠma-ri-ia-wa-an-ni-it | KUB 31.86 ii 2’ | (CTH 261, NS) | |
| KUB 48.104, 11’ | (CTH 261, NS) |
On the interpretation as a collective, see Neu apud HEG L-M:136 and Sasseville 2021e:644f.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme describes an architectural object that, together with the URUDUheyawallit ‘rain gutter’, encircles a tower. On contextual grounds, Boysan-Dietrich 1987a:103-105 suggests that it refers to the top part of the tower, i.e. its balcony including cornice and battlements (followed by Sasseville 2021e:644f.). Puhvel (HED M:71) proposes the meanings ‘railing, fence’ implying a wooden balustrade around the top part of the tower, which is congruent with the idea of Boysan-Dietrich 1987a; cf. CHD L-N:186 ‘an architectural feature’, Tischler (HEG L-M:136) ‘a part of a building’, Miller 2013a:223 leaves it untranslated.
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1.1.5Stem
The word is formed with the suffix -wann(i)-, or better -wa(/i)- + -ann(i)-, either way of Luwian origin (Rieken & Sasseville 2014a). From this suffix, an original collective was built, i.e. -anna- (coll.).
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1.1.6Origin
Melchert 2005a:449 adduces GIŠmariyawanna- as a Luwianism in Hittite Transmission, probably on account of the suffix -wann(i)- (thus HED M:71) or rather the suffix chain -wa- + -ann(i)-, which would be a solid argument, since the geminate in -ann(i)- has come about through Čop’s Law. For the Luwian derivational chain -wa(/i)- + -ann(i)-, see Rieken & Sasseville 2014a. The recognition of the word in the Lydian language might also speak for a Luwic origin; see below.
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1.2 Lydian
*mλwẽna-
‘balcony, balustrade (?)’1.2.1Derivatives
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘balcony, balustrade (?)’
Comparing Lyd. *mλwẽn(i)- with Luw. mariyawann(i)- attested only in the collective, we may reconstruct a Proto-Luwic word *mEr-i̯o- + -u̯o- + -énno/i- (< *-é-no-). The root, however, is of unknown origin.
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