/parranihha/, PRAE-ni-ha
‘from before’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2730
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/parranihha/, PRAE-ni-ha
‘from before’1.1.1Transmission
Attested once, this hapax legomenon occurs in one of the inscriptions from Commagene, dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /parranihha/ | PRAE-ni-ha | ANCOZ 7, §9 (Commagene) |
Hawkins 2000a:357 erroneously read 〈PRAE-ha〉, omitting the sign 〈ni〉, which is clearly visible on both the photograph and the autograph, but in Hawkins 2013c:73f., the passage is corrected to the form cited in the table above.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is based on that of /parran/ ‘before’, see the discussion there. The logogram PRAE (sign *14) is found throughout the word family.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned to this lexeme on the basis of its morphological structure first, discussed below, but the context supports it. In ANCOZ 7, §9, the relevant clause occurs in the curse formula and is part of a longer protasis: ni-pa za MENSA kwa/i-sa i-mára/i (DEUS)CERVUS3 á-lá/í (DEUS)AVIS (DEUS)ta-sà-ku-ha [“]MALUS”-la/i-tara/i-ti PRAE-ni-ha CAPERE-i, approx. /ni=ba za wassin=za kwis immara Runtiya ala Kubaba Tasku=ha attuwalastarradi parranihha lai/, meaning ‘or who takes this table from before (the gods) Runtiya of the Open Country, Lady Kubaba, and Tasku with/out of viciousness’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:357 and Hawkins 2013c:73f.).
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1.1.5Stem
The word is a compound of the two adverbs /parran/ ‘before’ and /ahha/ ‘away, back’, comparable to a number of other like compounds, e.g. /sarrahha/ ‘up from’. That /ahha/ surfaces as /ihha/ here is not unexpected, considering its cognate /parihha/ ‘from above’, consisting of /pari/ and /ahha/ (Melchert, pers. comm. to Yakubovich).
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For the lemma head see HLuw. /pari/.