=kuwar
‘self, very’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- part
- ID
- 2714
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
=kuwar
‘self, very’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found across the Palaic corpus.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | ku-wa-ar | KUB 32.18 i 8’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
| ku-wa-r(=) | KUB 32.18 i 11’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) | |
| ku-wa-ar | KUB 32.18 i 12’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) | |
| ku-wa-r(=) | KUB 32.18 i 13’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) | |
| ku-wa-ar | KUB 32.18 i 16’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) | |
| ku-wa-r(=) | KUB 32.18 i 19’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) | |
| ku-wa-r(=) | KUB 35.168 i 5’ | (CTH 752, OS) | |
| ku-wa-ar | KUB 32.17, 8’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| ku-ar | KUB 35.165 obv. 21 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| ku-ar | KUB 35.165 obv. 22 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| ku-ar | KUB 35.165 rev. 24’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| [ku]-˹wa˺-r(=) | KUB 35.168 i 1’ | (CTH 752, OS) | |
| [ku-w]a-ar | KUB 32.18 i 1’ | (CTH 752, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). For the interpretation as a unitary word =kuwar, see Melchert 1984b:23, contra Carruba 1972a:5-10.
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1.1.4Meaning
Melchert 1984b:23f. argues convincingly that the Palaic enclitic particle =kuwar can be functionally compared to the Hittite emphatic particle =pat. Its effect can be that of reinforcing the reflexivity, i.e. ‘self’, e.g. ti=kuwar šūna ‘You pour yourself!’, or of emphasizing the importance of a concept, i.e. ānnaz=kuwar tī iška ‘You be (his) very mother!’.
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1.1.5Origin
Melchert 1984b:23f. analyzes rightly Pal. =kuwar as a univerbation between =(k)ku ‘and’ and an adverbial (or better locatival) particle =r. His analysis can be further supported by the “discovery” of a new Palaic particle =nuwar. Differently, Dunkel (LIPP II:466, 691) suggests that Pal. =kuwar is built on the relative/interrogative pronoun *ku̯o- with the locatival morpheme *r and compares HLuw. /kwari/ ‘if, when’. The analysis of Melchert is here given preference, although it is difficult to prove or disprove any of the two theories.
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