ašiwa
‘that one (?)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- pron
- ID
- 2657
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ašiwa
‘that one (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a mythical passage pertaining to the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. or indecl. | a-ši-wa | KUB 48.69, 3 | (CTH 754, NS) |
| KUB 48.69, 6 | (CTH 754, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
The pronoun ašiwa can be compared to the Hittite demonstrative pronoun aši (nom. sg. c.), which possesses a 3rd person/distal deixis with a secondary use as a disassociative marker (Goedegebuure 2002-2003a, Hoffner & Melchert 2008a:144-146). In the Palaic passage, ašiwa is used to refer to the bull in the sky right after it disappeared from sight (i.e. šannar). Thus, the comparison is also valid with respect to its pragmatic function.
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1.1.5Stem
The addition of the morpheme -wa to the pronoun aši is found in derivatives such as in Hitt. ašiwant- and Luw. āššiwant(i)- ‘poor’ (for the Anatolian derivational chain -wa- + -nt-, see Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:309). However, in this case the morpheme does not seem to inflect, thus -wa could be adverbial (i.e. a frozen nom./acc. pl. n.).
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