annarauwar-/-wa-

The only attestations of the word are found in two duplicate NS fragments belonging to the state cult of the Tutelary Deity.

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HW 2nd ed. A:79 interprets the form as the gen. sg. of an otherwise unattested Luwian adjective *annaru- ‘strong’ (thus also HEG A-K:358, McMahon 1991a:102f. n. 90, HED A, E, I:63; similarly Ünal 2007a:28 starting from a noun *annaru-; without analysis DLL:26). In contrast, the present morphological and semantic interpretation as a genitive of the verbal noun annarawar ‘strengthening’ follows Archi 1975a:97 (see also Starke 1990a:160 n. 520, CLL:14, HHw:16, EDHIL:387). Both solutions are theoretically possible, but the former comes at the cost of assuming a u-stem *innaru-, which is itself unattested, and constitutes the base of a large word family and, at the same time, was Luwianized as *annaru- keeping the Hittite suffix ablaut (annaraw-). The latter hypothesis, viz. the gen. sg. of annarawar, has the advantage of allowing the assumption that the attested form innarauwaš was simply Luwianized (cf. innarau[w]ār at KUB 30.10 rev. 19 and the genuinely Hittite syntagma innarauwaḫḫuwaš ^Dkal-aš with a very similar meaning in the same text, i.e. KUB 2.1 ii 17).The interpretation of innarauwaš as the genitive of a verbal noun avoids the traditional analysis as a 3sg. pret. act. of an -ā(i)-^(mi) stem with a ḫi-verb ending. Instead, the form functions as the attribute of a predicate noun. In a dream, Ištar says to the fugitive lords: innarauwaš=(š)maš dariyant[(eš)] “you are tired (ones) to be strengthened (lit. of strengthening)” (contra HW 2nd ed. I:60 with the full quotation and references, Kammenhuber 1953a:41, HED A, E, I:367,).

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Starting from the analysis as a Luwianized form of Hitt. innarauwaš, gen. sg. of innarau[w]ar, the underlying verb is most likely an -ā(i)- stem *innara(i)-^(mi) derived from innara- (cf. adv. innarā ‘purposely, on one’s own’). It is only for reasons of economy that this solution is to be preferred over Melchert’s account (in CLL:14), who posits a Luwian borrowing *annarā(i)- (denominative from the Luwian adjective annara/i-) with a Hittite verbal noun ending. For references on the alternative analysis as u-stem adjective, see under Meaning.

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References for the assumption of a Luwian origin of annarauwa[š] (in a variety of frameworks) are listed under Meaning.

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