āššiwant(i)-
‘poor’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2658
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
āššiwant(i)-
‘poor’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs only once in a NS ritual fragment.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | a-aš-ši-wa-an | KUB 41.32 rev. 9’ | (CTH 458, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The etymological, and thus semantic relationship between CLuw. āššiwantattanašša/i- and Hitt. ašiwant- ‘poor’ was first seen by Meriggi 1957b:65 n. 2 and has been accepted since; cf. DLL:33, HEG A-K:83, Starke 1990a:449, CLL:36, EDHIL:221, Simon 2010b:259, Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:209, with the exception of HW 2nd ed. A:407. The final proof is provided by the attestation of the adjectival base a-aš-ši-wa-an at KUB 41.32 rev. 9’ in combination with the antonymous factitive verb ḫa-ap-pí-na-aḫ-ḫa-aḫ-ḫi ‘I make rich’ ibid. rev. 10’ (Starke 1990a:449).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
In view of Hitt. ašiwant-, an -ant- stem, there can hardly be any doubt that also the nom./acc. sg. n. form āššiwan, once recognized to be Luwian (Starke 1990a:449), belongs to the corresponding stem class in -ant(i)- in this language (thus āššiwant(i)-); cf. also CLL:36, EDHIL:221.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
On the basis of the contrastive spelling with a-aš-ši- (like CLuw. āššiwantattar-/-t(ta)n- vs. Hitt. a-ši- in ašiwant(i)-), Starke 1990a:449 plausibly argued that the form āššiwan represents a Luwianism. The claim is accepted in CLL:36, Melchert 1994a:63, 367, EDHIL:221, Simon 2010b:259, Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:210.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *aši.