=nuwar

This particle is found in a song attributed here to the Palaic language (KBo 19.160) and possibly once in a festival text with Palaic incantations.

[D.S.]

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). The sign 〈nu〉 used to spell the particle in KBo 19.160 has sometimes been confused with 〈pát/pì〉 (e.g. in HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:776). However, the reading of the sign 〈pát/pì〉 would fail to make sense of the Palaic particle chain, as =pì=war is not possible due to the loss of the word-final r in the quotative particle =wa(r) whenever it closes the particle chain; cf. the use of =wa(r) in KBo 19.160 itself.

For the restoration of KUB 35.163 ii 16, note that Carruba 1970a:28 had left the sign -w[a- undeciphered.

[D.S.]

Due to the fragmentary contexts, no function can be posited for Pal. =nuwar. However, it is worth noting that so far =nuwar is always used enclitically after a noun.

[D.S.]

It is very likely that Pal. =nuwar is composed of the conjunction nu, which would have been cliticized, and the locative particle =r; cf. Pal. =kuwar.

[D.S.]