annar(i)-

The occurrences of the lexeme are widely strewn across the genres (festival and ritual texts, a lexical list, a prayer and a letter), from MS onwards.

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nom. sg.	[an-na-ri-i]š	KUB 2.8 i 27’	(CTH 617, NS)
	an-na-ri-iš	KUB 2.8 ii 45, v 27’	(CTH 617, NS)
	an-na-ri!-iš	KUB 2.8 ii 13	(CTH 617, NS)
	an-na-ri-iš	KUB 10.81, 8’	(CTH 617, NS)
	a-an-na-ri-iš	KBo 13.1 rev. 36	(CTH 301, NS)
	D⸢a-an⸣-na-ri-iš-š(=)	KUB 30.11 rev. 18’	(CTH 374, MS)
acc. sg.	⸢an⸣-na-⸢ri⸣-in	KUB 32.87 rev. 14’	(CTH 646, MS)
	an-na-ri-in	KUB 32.87 rev. 24’	(CTH 646, MS)
	an-na-ri-en-n(=)	KBo 2.9 i 24’	(CTH 716, NS)
dat./loc. sg. or adv.	an-na-ri an-na-ri	KBo 18.48 rev. 2	(CTH 186, NS)

The reduplicated sequence an-na-ri an-na-ri at KBo 18.48 rev. 2 appears as the only constituent in a noun clause and can therefore be analyzed either as a substantive or as an adverb (already Otten & von Soden 1968a:30). A stem form seems unlikely.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Like mannitt(i)- ‘fertility’ and šalḫitt(i)- ‘growth’, annar(i)- must also be a desirable condition in nature, as becomes clear in a passage of a ritual containing the following request for a blessing (KBo 2.9 i 19’-24’): ⁽¹⁹⁾na-aš-⸢ta⸣ ⁽²⁰⁾ŠA LUGAL MUNUS.LUGAL DUMU.MEŠ.LUGAL TI-tar ḫa-ad-du-la-tar in-na-ra-wa-⸢tar⸣ ⁽²¹⁾MU.ḪI.A GÍD.DA nu-ú-un tu-um-ma-an-ti-ia-an tar-ḫu-i-la-tar ⁽²²⁾A-NA KUR ^URUḪat-ti-kán an-da ḫal-ki-aš^! (text: uš) ^GIŠGEŠTIN-aš GU₄-aš UDU-aš ⁽²³⁾DUMU.NAM.U₁₉.LU-aš mi-ia-tar šal-ḫi-it-ti-in ma-an-ni-it-ti-en ⁽²⁴⁾an-na-ri-en-na ú-da ‘Bring life, health, strength, long years, compliance (and) obedience, victory of king, queen and princes, (and bring) into the land of Ḫatti prosperity, growth, mannitt(i)- and strength of crops, vines, cattle, sheep (and) humans!’ (for the syntactic analysis of the genitives as dependent on the whole list of conditions in the second part, cf. Fuscagni 2011a with references).

In view of the obvious etymological connection with annara/i- ‘strong, virile’ and the synonymous adjective annarumma/i- (Rosenkranz 1952a:21), this can hardly be anything else but ‘strength, virility’, as assumed in HW:436 in 1966, HED A, E, I:62f., CLL:14, HW 2nd ed. A:79 (‘Lebenskraft’), Melchert 1999e:367, HHw:16, Ünal 2007a:28, EDHIL:387, Maier 2013a:57; hesitant DLL:26 and undecided HEG A-K:360).

The semantic interpretation is confirmed by the use elsewhere of ^Dannar(i)- as a deified concept, i.e. a benign daimon or spirit. In the festival descriptions (CTH 617 and 646), it occurs in lists of deities who receive sacrificial offerings (always asyndetically paired with tarpi-), whereas in the lexical list KBo 13.1 (at rev. 35f.), ānnariš translates Sum. [^Dka]l = Akk. la-ma-sú (following the line of Sum. [^Dalá]d = Akk. še-du = tar-pí-iš). In Hittite context, the logogram ^Dkal is the spelling for the Tutelary deity (^DInara). It seems that the Hittites connected ^DInara with Luw. ānnar(i)- and, thus, with its Hittite match *innar-, the base of innarwant- ‘strong’ etc. (cf. ^Dkal-aš at KBo 38.47 obv. 3 and ^Din-na-ri ^Dtar-pí ibid. obv. 4 showing a replacement of annar(i)- with innara-, but the co-occurrence of ^Dkal-aš and ^Din-na-ri here and of ^Dkal and ^D⸢a-an⸣-na-ri-iš-š=a at KUB 30.11 rev. 18’ excludes a full identification). For a detailed description of the philological evidence, see Otten & von Soden 1968a:27-30, and for a summary, see HED A, E, I:62.

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Melchert 1999e:367 (and Melchert 2003b:197) claims that annari- is an i-stem abstract noun derived from a thematic adjective, but there are no formal indicators for a distinction, because both formations would end up as a mutated stem. Borrowed into Hittite, stems with i-mutation are frequently assigned to the Hittite i-stem class, and regarding annari-, nothing speaks against such an assumption, hence annar(i)-.

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On account of the vocalism of the base *annar- (vs. Hitt. *innar-), the i-mutated inflection, and the use of gloss wedges, it is common sense that the word is a borrowing from Luwian; cf. Rosenkranz 1952a:21, DLL:26, HED A, E, I:62f., CLL:14, Melchert 1999e:367, EDHIL:387, Maier 2013a:57; mixed attitude in HW 2nd ed. A:79, followed HEG A-K:360.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. annara/i-.